Sex Offenders Emerging from Long-Term Imprisonment. A Study of Their Long-term Reconviction Rates and of Parole Board Members' Judgements of Their Risk
| Autor: | Aidan Wilcox, Martina Feilzer, Roger Hood, Stephen Shute |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Social Psychology
Poison control Human factors and ergonomics Criminology Computer security computer.software_genre Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Pathology and Forensic Medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Injury prevention Sex offense Psychology Imprisonment Law computer Adjudication |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Criminology. 42:371-394 |
| ISSN: | 1464-3529 0007-0955 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/bjc/42.2.371 |
| Popis: | This study challenges a number of preconceptions about the risks posed by sex offenders who have been sentenced to long determinate terms of imprisonment: 162 prisoners were followed-up for four years and 94 for six years. The category `sexual offender? was disaggregated in order to examine reconviction rates of offenders against adults as compared with offenders against children, whether in an intra-familial or extra-familial setting, and to explore evidence of `specialization?. The study also analysed the extent to which members of the Parole Board, in deliberating on the suitability of these prisoners for parole, correctly identified as `high risks? those who were subsequently reconvicted of a sexual or serious violent crime. These `clinical? predictions were compared with those derived from an actuarial prediction instrument for sex offenders. The findings have implications for both sentencing and parole. |
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