@article{ref1,
title="Lifetime Criminal History of Sex Offenders Seen for Psychological Assessment in Five Decades",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2012",
author="Langevin, Ron and Curnoe, Suzanne",
volume="56",
number="7",
pages="997-1021",
abstract="A sample of 2,190 sex offenders seen between 1966 and 2009 was compared on lifetime sexual and all offending, using charges, convictions, court appearances, and self-report as criteria. Of these various criteria, between 47.4% and 81.1% reoffended. Canadian child abuse reporting laws, which came into effect in the 1980s, were associated with increased charges and convictions for offenders, who victimized children, and with a reduction in their longer term reoffense rates. Immigration and population mobility, use of aliases, study follow-up time, and self-reported undetected sex crimes influenced reoffense rates. Results indicate that sex offenders continued to have short prison sentences and/or spend little or no time incarcerated during the latter part of the 20th century.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="10.1177/0306624X11420084",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X11420084"
}