Reply #67: recidivism and sex offenders. Don't read if you want facts.

[Warren Stupidity]

A 2002 study by the United States Department of Justice indicated that recidivism rates among sex offenders was 5.3%; that is, 5.3% of released sex offenders were later arrested for another sex crime. The same study mentioned that 68% of released non-sex offenders were rearrested for any crime (both sex and non-sex offenses), while 43% of the released sex offenders were rearrested for any crime (and 24% reconvicted).<2>

A collection of official studies spanning the years 1983 to 2010 across all 50 states and the federal government has been assembled <3>. This URL provides a spreadsheet and .zip file containing sources supporting the DOJ study, where the average recidivism of sex offenders committing new sex crimes since 1983 is approximately 9%, compared to the 42% average recidivism rate for all felony offenders committing any new felony offense.

According to the Office of Justice Programs of the United States Department of Justice,<3> in New York State the recidivism rates for sex offenders have been shown to be lower than any other crime except murder. Another report from the OJP that studied recidivism of prisoners released in 1994 in 15 states accounting for two-thirds of all prisoners released in the United States that year,<4> reached the same conclusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_offender

I personally want to go after Men Who Drown Kittens. Those monsters need SPECIAL TREATMENT.