Source: utpjournals.press 7/3/2023
The public is justifiably concerned about the risk presented by individuals with a history of sexual crime. Given that recidivism risk varies across individuals and over time, what level is so low as to be indistinguishable from sexual recidivism risk in the general population (a desistance threshold)? T
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Other research has found that most individuals released from a sexual offence present a similarly low residual risk (< 2%) after 10 years of being offence-free in the community. Consequently, applying long-term restrictions (e.g., lifetime registration; Criminal Code of Canada §161) to such individuals serves no public protection function.
News like this doesn’t win votes. The public doesn’t care.
More credible evidence that refutes the Conclusive Presumption of universal, lifetime, Frightening and High risk. I’m sure the Supreme Hegemony of Unquestionable Demagogues will ignore this. They will Banish it into non-existence, so they can continue to pretend their is no credible evidence that refutes their Conclusive Presumption.
Easier to just ignore all refuting evidence, then try to explain why it is rational to continue to presume Universal Frightening and High, as the refuting evidence keeps piling up. Just pretend it doesn’t exist, and ignore anyone that questions that. They are, after all, Unquestionable Demagogues!
The SMART project also found that:
* About half of all new arrests for SO happened within the first 2 years of release
* About half of all new SO arrests were people under 30 years old at the time of the new SO arrest.
* Of those over 30, about half will be under 40.
* Of those over 40 about half will be under 50
* Of those over 50 virtual all will be under 65
* About half of all new SO arrests were people that had 2+ previous arrests before their registerable crime
* Better than half the people that were arrested for a new SO were male
This is how you get to this Canadian <1%. after 10 years. Young males, with a history of criminal behavior before their Registration SO commit most of the tiny levels of recidivism. However, they don’t wait to start commiting new crimes. They get right to it, or never. Older men, may wait a few years but seldom more than 5, or start after 50 years old. More than 10 years, or over 65… Miniscule. Both over 65 and more than 10+ years out of prison… anachronism. Always cut in half for women.
Recidivism will continue to drop due to…Non-prod CP. The average person convicted for this was
* 40 at time of arrest
* Few to no previous arrests
Only thing going against this group, most were male. However this group has a higher percentage of females than most groups. Always cut in half for females.
This group will either be arrested for new CP within 5 years of release or never, most within 2 years. Hands on, also within 5 years or never, most within 2 years. Most arrests will be men under 50. Figure out for men, then cut in half for women.
Surprised no one has got to this yet, but one of the authors is R. Karl Hansen…being the paper is from north of the 49th parallel, I’d say it is THE same gent who is chastised here continually by the masses (which I agree with) for his little -99 test.
The answer anyone needs is in the title of the article “There Is No Such Thing as Zero Risk of Sexual Offending“. It does not say of re-offending, but offending which includes those who haven’t been/won’t be/will be caught, i.e., everyone in the population. This is in line with the UT-Tyler study posted here last month where one conclusion was there is no such thing as a zero risk person when it comes to sex offenses because there are those just have not been caught yet or will perpetrate some sex offense. The only zero risk person is a dead person (and in FLA, they somehow continue to offend from beyond the grave).
@EdC – if you open the article link above, then tap on the reference tab of the article, you will find their references for the article which may be of help to you in your work.
But the Static-99 scam says 17 years. And you can’t “petition” if you score “high” on the Static-99R until the 20 year mark.
Someone needs to tell the a*holes in Florida about this proven statistic.