Isn’t it true that sex offenders are the most likely of all criminals to reoffend?
No. Those who commit property crimes and drug offenses are far more likely to reoffend. Murderers and sex offenders are the least likely of all major criminal categories to reoffend. The rate of offense for sex offenders has been studied by the U.S. federal government and at the www.csom.gov website you can read all about it. A study reported in the New York Times on November 16, 2003 that was conducted by the Justice Department of 9,691 men (sex offenders) who were released in 1994 found 43 percent were arrested for any type of crime within three years compared with 68 percent for all other former inmates. The national study (also available on the Center for Sex Offender Management website, www.csom.gov) found that criminals who are not sex offenders were rearrested for a sex crime at a rate of 1.3 percent. Nationally, sex offenders were arrested for another sex crime after their release at a rate of 5.3 percent. This means a non-0ffending rate of 94.7 percent.
