CRIM 316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Meta-Analysis, Sex And The Law
8 Dec 2016
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Sex offenders are a special case of offender. Specialization is perceived as the probably of repeating he same type of crime when next arrested. It is possible that the level of specialization may vary across . If criminal activity of a sex offender persist, it would be in sexual crime. Crim316 lecture 4: criminal career and career criminals. 100% - also applicable if offender has committed only 1 crime. Longer follow up periods = more opportunities of reoffending. Difficult to get a conviction thru multiple filters. Recidivism 19% treated vs. recidivism 27% untreated. In general, recidivism of sex offenders is low. 13% recidivism for average follow up period of 4-5 years. 13% recidivism for treated vs. 18% recidivism for untreated. 262420 nonsex offenders 1% vs. 9691 sex offenders 5% Nonsex offenders 0-3% vs. sex offenders 6% 191 child molesters 35% vs. 137 nonsex offenders (1%) 16% for treated and untreated hetero cms. 18% treated and 34% untreated homo cms.
