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Time to recidivism <br />All sex offenders <br />Within 6 months following their release, <br />16% of the 9,691 men were rearrested <br />for a new crime (not necessarily <br />another sex offense) (table 9). Within <br />1 year, altogether 24.2% were <br />rearrested. Within 2 years the cumula- <br />tive total reached 35.5 %. By the end of <br />the 3 -year followup period, 43% (4,163 <br />of the 9,691) were rearrested for some <br />type of crime. <br />These statistics indicate that most <br />recidivism within the first 3 years <br />following release occurred in the first <br />year (56 %, since 24.2% / 43% = 56 %). <br />While the bulk of rearrests occurred in <br />the first year, that period did not <br />account for the bulk of reconvictions or <br />reimprisonments. This is largely <br />because a sizable number of those <br />rearrested in the first year were not <br />reconvicted and reimprisoned until <br />sometime in the second year, due to <br />the additional time needed to <br />prosecute, convict, and sentence a <br />criminal defendant. For example, by <br />the end of the first year, 8.6% of the <br />9,691 released sex offenders were <br />reconvicted, and by the end of the third <br />year, a cumulative total of 24% were <br />reconvicted, indicating that the first <br />year accounted for a relatively small <br />percentage of all the reconvictions in <br />the 3 years (36 %, since 8.6% / 24% _ <br />36 %). <br />Rapists and sexual assaulters <br />Forty -six percent of released rapists <br />were rearrested within 3 years, and <br />over half of those rearrests (56 %) <br />occurred in the first year (since 25.8% / <br />46.0% = 56 %). Similarly, 41.5% of <br />released sexual assaulters were rear- <br />rested within the first 3 years following <br />their 1994 release, and over half of <br />those rearrests (56 %) occurred in the <br />first year (since 23.4% / 41.5% = 56 %). <br />Table 9. Recidivism rate of sex offenders released from prison in 1994, by type <br />of recidivism measure, type of sex offender, and time after release <br />Cumulative percent of sex offenders released from prison in 1994 <br />Time after <br />Sexual <br />1994 release All <br />Rapists <br />assaulters <br />Rearrested for any type <br />17.2 <br />3 years <br />of crime within - <br />6 months 16.0% <br />16.3% <br />15.8% <br />1 year 24.2 <br />25.8 <br />23.4 <br />2 years 35.5 <br />38.6 <br />34.0 <br />3 years 43.0 <br />46.0 <br />41.5 <br />Reconvicted for any type <br />of crime within -' <br />6 months <br />3.6% <br />1 year <br />8.6 <br />2 years <br />17.2 <br />3 years <br />24.0 <br />Returned to prison with a new <br />sentence for any type of crime within -b <br />6 months 1.8% <br />1 year 4.0 <br />2 years 8.0 <br />3 years 11.2 <br />4.3% 3.3% <br />10.0 8.0 <br />19.9 15.9 <br />27.3 22.4 <br />1.9% 1.8% <br />4.1 3.9 <br />9.0 7.5 <br />12.6 10.5 <br />Total released 9,691 3,115 6,576 <br />Note: The 9,691 sex offenders were released in 15 States. <br />'Because of missing data, prisoners released in Ohio were excluded from the <br />calculation of percent reconvicted. <br />"'New sentence" includes new sentences to State or Federal prisons but not to local jails. <br />Because of missing data, prisoners released in Ohio and Virginia were excluded <br />from the calculation of percentage returned to prison with a new sentence. <br />16 Recidivism of Sex Offenders Released from Prison in 1994 <br />