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http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1306417111
Re-offenders are especially likely to be caught because they’re closely watched, says Jill Levenson, professor of social work at Florida’s Barry University who’s led or participated in at least 10 studies of sex offender recidivism. “I think there are probably fewer undetected offenses by those offenders, especially those under parole or probationary supervision and in treatment” than in the general population, she says.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/pessimism-about-pedophilia
Other public education programs, such as "Stop It Now" (www.stopitnow.org), target bystanders — people who suspect that a child is being sexually abused, but may not know how best to intervene. The preliminary research suggests that such programs may help.
https://psmag.com/news/whats-the-real-rate-of-sex-crime-recidivism
llman contrasts that statement with the numbers from an authoritative 2014 meta-analysis of 21 recidivism studies by a team of leading scholars. It found that 32 percent of sex offenders assessed as a high risk to re-offend did so within 15 years. For offenders judged low risk, the number was 5 percent. And for high-risk offenders who made it 16 years with no re-offenses, their re-offense rate thereafter was zero.
Those low rates seem to show that Kennedy’s number was wrong and puncture the logic of the opinion. But are those the right figures?
https://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html
