Sex offenders unlikely to commit second crime


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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/83be9d99-1f7d-449a-877c-680088097d51/522D1D7B-BA04-4802-BAC1-2FEF211E8912/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19926633.100-sex-offenders-unlikely-to-commit-second-crime.html?feedId=online-news_rss20" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19926633.100-sex-offenders-unlikely-to-commit-second-crime.html?feedId=online-news_rss20" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19926633.100-sex-offenders-unlikely-to-commit-second-crime.html?feedId=online-news_rss20"><H2 class="colspacer inline">Sex offenders unlikely to commit second crime</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19926633.100-sex-offenders-unlikely-to-commit-second-crime.html?feedId=online-news_rss20"><P>SEX crime statistics tend to make depressing reading, but now there is some good news from the most populous state in the US. Just 3.2 per cent of more than 4000 sex offenders released on parole in 2002 were re-imprisoned for another sex offence in the subsequent 5 years, according to new figures from California. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19926633.100-sex-offenders-unlikely-to-commit-second-crime.html?feedId=online-news_rss20"><P>While experts know that sex offenders are <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19325923.300-editorial-the-uncomfortable-truth-about-sex-crimes.html">less likely to reoffend than most other criminals</A> (<I>New Scientist</I>, 24 February 2007, p 3), the very low rate of re-imprisonment in the new study will challenge public perceptions about the risks these criminals pose. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19926633.100-sex-offenders-unlikely-to-commit-second-crime.html?feedId=online-news_rss20"><P>The figures are broadly consistent with a <A target="nsarticle" href="http://www.corr.state.mn.us/documents/04-07SexOffenderReport-Recidivism.pdf">2007 Minnesotan study</A>, which found that 3.2 per cent of sex offenders released from 1990 to 2002 had been re-imprisoned for a further sex crime within 3 years of their release. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/522D1D7B-BA04-4802-BAC1-2FEF211E8912/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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