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Sex offenders compared to Table 6. Prior criminal record of child molesters and statutory rapists non-sex offenders released from prison in 1994 A total of 262,420 non-sex offenders Child Statutory were released from State prisons in Prior to the sex crime for which imprisoned molesters rapists 1994 in the 15 States. Of the 262,420 Percent with at least 1 prior arrest for - - non-sex offenders, 94% had at least 1 Any crime 76.89/6 80.6% prior arrest and 82% had at least 1 Any sex offense 29.0 38.4 prior conviction (not in a table). Overall, Sex offense against a child 18.3 19.6 the 9,691 sex offenders had a shorter Prior arrests for any crimes criminal history than the 262,420 Mean a.1 4.8 Median 2 3 non-sex offenders. Before the arrest Percent with at least t prior conviction for - - that resulted in their prison sentence, Any crime 54.6% 64.6% sex offenders had been arrested 4.5 Any sex offense 11.9 21.2 times, on average. This prior arrest Sex offense against a child 7.3 11.5 record was about half that of non-sex Prior convictions for any crimes offenders (8.9 prior arrests). In Mean 1.6 2.2 addition, among the 1994 prison Median 1 1 releases, 23.7% of the sex offenders Percent with prior prison sentence for any crime- 19.3% 23.4% (2,297), compared to 44.3% of non-sex Percent who were first releasesb 74.5% 73.7% offenders (1 16,252), had served prior Total released 4,295 443 prison sentences. Note: The 4,295 child molesters were released in 15 States; the 443 statutory rapists in 11 States. Because of overlapping definitions, all statutory rapists also appear Sex offenders were more likely to have under the column "child molesters." a'Prior" does not include the arrest, conviction, or prison sentence that was the reason the sex been arrested (28.5%) or convicted offenders were in prison in 1994. Persons with no prior arrest or prior convictions (13.9%) for a sexual offense than were coded zero and were included in the calculations of mean and median priors. Calculation non-sex offenders (6.5% with a prior of prior convictions excluded Ohio, and calculation of prior prison sentences excluded Ohio and arrest for a sex crime; 0.2% with a prior v irginia. Data on first releases are based on releases from 13 States. First releases include only those conviction for a sex crime). The same offenders leaving prison for the first time since beginning their sentence. First releases exclude is true for child molesting - about 1 those who left prison in 1994 but who had previously been released under the same sentence in 10 sex offenders had a prior arrest and had returned to prison for violating the conditions of release. for a sex offense against a child, compared to about 1 in 100 non-sex Child molesters and sexual assaulters Among those with three or more priors offenders. was a man whose first arrest for child The 4,295 child molesters had at least molesting was in 1966, when he was Rapists and sexual assaulters 1 arrest for child molesting (the arrest age 20. When released in 1994, he that led to their imprisonment). For was serving an 11-year sentence for For approximately 71 % of the 3,115 3,509 (81.7%) of them, that arrest was molesting a child under age 14. The rapists, the arrest for rape that resulted their first ever arrest for child molesting prior criminal record of this serial in their imprisonment was their first for (table 6). For the other 786 men pedophile spanned three decades, with a sex crime. The remaining 29% had (18.3% of the 4,295), that was not their arrests for child molesting in the one or more prior sex crime arrests. first. Some had one prior arrest for a 1970's, the 1980's, and the 1990's. Likewise, for sexual assaulters, the sex offense against a child, some had sexual assault arrest that led to their two, and others had three or more. imprisonment was the first arrest for a sex crime for 72% of the 6,576 sexual assaulters. The remaining 28% had been arrested at least once before for some type of sex crime. 12 Recidivism of Sex Offenders Released from Prison in 1994 5OA-61