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Results for sex offenders (new zealand)
1 results foundAuthor: Nadesu, Arul Title: Reconviction Rates of Sex Offenders Five year follow-up study: Sex offenders against children vs offenders against adults Summary: Prisoners serving sentences for sex offences make up around 20 percent of the New Zealand prison population on any given date. As a sub-group within the general offender population, sex offenders share a number of important characteristics. Awareness of those characteristics has relevance for understanding reconviction data of the type presented here. Firstly, victim surveys indicate that, of all crime types, sex offences are perhaps the least likely to result in the apprehension and conviction of an offender – it appears that the vast majority of offences are either not reported by victims, or not resolved by Police. This means that conviction histories of sex offenders are often unrepresentative of actual offending behaviour. Second, it is widely recognised that sex offending can be a compulsive behaviour that persists over decades of an offender’s life. As a result there can be long time gaps between recorded criminal convictions; alternatively, offenders may still be active despite criminal records that suggest desistance. Thirdly, while “criminal versatility” is the norm in the general offender population, many sex offenders have few, or only minor, convictions for other types of crime. Finally, in terms of impact, sex offences tend to be particularly harmful and damaging to victims. Although a handful of recidivism studies about sex offenders have been conducted here and overseas, most have had small sample sizes. As a result, the reconviction patterns of this population are not particularly well-understood. Notwithstanding the points made above, many sex offenders are indeed reconvicted of new crimes, including crimes of both a sexual and non-sexual type. The current study is intended to assist the Department of Corrections in meeting its strategic objectives regarding the management and rehabilitation of offenders. It provides straightforward data on the characteristics of sex offenders and their recidivism rates. The data presented here are based on the “recidivism index” (RI) methodology used in the Department of Corrections’ annual reporting of reconviction. This method quantifies the rate of reconviction and re-imprisonment for specified sub-groups of offenders, over follow-up periods of defined length, after release from a custodial sentence, or following commencement of a community sentence or order. Conviction and sentencing data is obtained from the Ministry of Justice’s Case Management System (CMS) database. This report summarises patterns of reconviction and re-imprisonment of exactly 1100 male sex offenders who were released from prison during the 36-month period reconviction for offences that occurred within 60 months of an individual offender’s release date (up to 31 December 2008). Details: Wellington, NZ: New Zealand Department of Corrections, Strategy, Policy and Planning, 2011. 18p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 20, 2012 at: http://www.corrections.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/557154/Reconviction_Rates_of_Sex_Offenders_-_five_year_follow_up.pdf Year: 2011 Country: New Zealand URL: http://www.corrections.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/557154/Reconviction_Rates_of_Sex_Offenders_-_five_year_follow_up.pdf Shelf Number: 123687 Keywords: RecidivismSex Offenders (New Zealand) |