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- Recent efforts aim to redefine which offenders pose a significant danger to merit longer sentences for current crimes, especially among serious sexual offenders.
- Follow-up studies examined reconvictions of individuals convicted of serious sexual offenses like rape, incest, and unlawful sexual intercourse, specifically focusing on cases from 1951 and 1961.
- Findings indicate these offenders have a low but more consistent rate of reconviction compared to property offenders.
Article Abstract
There have been recent attempts to re-define those offenders who are sufficiently dangerous to justify a longer sentence for their current offence than is normally provided in law, but there is little information about the frequency with which serious sexual offenders are reconvicted. Follow-up studies of the re-conviction in the subsequent 24 years and 15 years of those found guilty of rape, incest, and unlawful sexual intercourse with girls under 13 in 1951 and 1961 have therefore been made. The present paper deals with those prosecuted for unlawful sexual intercourse with girls under 13. The results suggest that there is a low but more persistent tendency to re-conviction than is found in property offenders.
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