Ok, I'm sick and tired of hearing about how you can't release pedophiles and rapists because they all re-offend.
Let's once and for all understand what our ownBureau of Justice Statistics says:
THESE ARE THE MOST RECENT LONG-TERM STUDY NUMBERS:
Of the 272,111 persons released from prisons in 15 States in 1994, an estimated 67.5% were rearrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within 3 years, 46.9% were reconvicted, and 25.4% resentenced to prison for a new crime.
Within 3 years of release, 2.5% of released rapists were rearrested for another rape, and 1.2% of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for a new homicide.
Sex offenders were less likely than non-sex offenders to be rearrested for any offense –– 43 percent of sex offenders versus 68 percent of non-sex offenders.
Sex offenders were about four times more likely than non-sex offenders to be arrested for another sex crime after their discharge from prison –– 5.3 percent of sex offenders versus 1.3 percent of non-sex offenders.
On a given day in 1994 there were approximately 234,000 offenders convicted of rape or sexual assault under the care, custody, or control of corrections agencies; nearly 60% of these sex offenders are under conditional supervision in the community.
Of the 9,691 male sex offenders released from prisons in 15 States in 1994, 5.3% were rearrested for a new sex crime within 3 years of release.
Approximately 4,300 child molesters were released from prisons in 15 States in 1994. An estimated 3.3% of these 4,300 were rearrested for another sex crime against a child within 3 years of release from prison.
JUST TO BE CLEAR:
Released prisoners with the HIGHEST rearrest rates were robbers (70.2%), burglars (74.0%), larcenists (74.6%), motor vehicle thieves (78.8%), those in prison for possessing or selling stolen property (77.4%), and those in prison for possessing, using, or selling illegal weapons (70.2%).
Released prisoners with the LOWEST rearrest rates were those in prison for homicide (40.7%), rape (46.0%), other sexual assault (41.4%), and driving under the influence (51.5%).
Within 3 years, 2.5% of released rapists were arrested for another rape, and 1.2% of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for homicide.
Ok, can we all please stop echoing the bullshit now?
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5 comments:
I'm a bit surprised, not that rapists are re-arrested last, but that drug dealers are not on the top of the list.
Amen!!!! I bring these very stats up in my classes. People do not want to believe these facts and are not open to discussing them.
Thanks for sharing this
Thanks for sharing this
Another reason to cut sex registries
Why don't we have murder, or rather mugger registries , seriously a consensual teenange sex, a urination in the bushes, or even simple touching the buttocks in oregon, or rather how broadly defined indecent exposure and child pornography laws are defined to include a 17 year old in a non-nude by suggestive post and a rape of a toddler.
Given that most sex offenses take place by non-strangers aka family and long sentences already make registries not worthwhile, if it doesn't then perhaps we are sentencing and tying up the criminal justice system if that's the case why do politicians keep on going and talking, folks are gullible.
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