The politicians pushing these draconian laws, the media and other organizations don't care about facts! They need to continue the fear campaign to keep the money rolling in, and to keep people distracted from the REAL problems in this country! Sex offenders are today's scapegoat!
11/05/2013
By Karen Franklin, Ph.D.
Criminals reform.
Violent criminals reform.
And now -- drum roll -- the authors of the most widely used actuarial tool for assessing sex offender recidivism are conceding that even sex offenders cross a "redemption threshold" over time, such that their risk of committing a new sexual crime may become "indistinguishable from the risk presented by non-sexual offenders."
Tracking a large group of 7,740 sexual offenders drawn from 21 different samples around the world, the researchers found that those who remain free in the community for five years or more after their release are at drastically reduced risk of committing a new sex offense.
The offenders identified as at the highest risk on the Static-99R saw their rates of reoffending fall the most, from 22 percent at the time of release to 8.6 percent after five years and only 4.2 percent after 10 years in the community. Based on their findings, the researchers say that risk factors such as number of prior offenses are time-dependent rather than truly static or never-changing.
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