Recidivism research: who, what, why? by UO Bachelor of Criminal Justice https://padlet.com/u0bcrimjust/suy75729wpho Corrections: Offender rehabilitation and desistance en-us 2018-01-30 23:45:39 UTC 2018-07-15 03:53:43 UTC hello@padlet.com E.G. Kristen Budd & Scott A Desmond 'Sex Offenders and Sex Crime Recidivism' (2014) 58(12) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 1481-1499. u0bcrimjust https://padlet.com/u0bcrimjust/suy75729wpho/wish/227345114 This article highlights that in the USA, sex offenders are receiving longer prison sentences (reflecting community expectations). The researchers found:
When using reconviction to measure sex crime recidivism [rather than rearrest]... each additional month of incarceration was associated with a slight decrease in the odds of recidivism for child molesters. In contrast, each additional month in sentence length was associated with a slight increase in the odds of sex crime recidivism for rapists, sexual assaulters, and all sex offenders combined. (p. 1493)
It's hard to know how significant this finding is. The authors were not too sure either e.g was it because the more serious offenders (who were more likely to re-offend) would logically receive longer sentences? Was it because prison begets prison? It would be interesting to see what other researchers have found.
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