On Oct 13, 9:51 pm, "mert1639"  wrote:
> "Cynic"  wrote in message
>
> news:o346f4pj98d6m01oijbv27dtmvf2d53n3o@4ax.com...> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:10:35 퍝, "mert1639"
> >  wrote:
>
> >>I'd have thought he'd learnt his lesson about where to keep his hands, but
> >>sex offenders never change.
>
> > Sex offenders have a very low re-offending rate compaed to almost all
> > other types of criminal.  But don't let facts get in the way of your
> > misconceptions.
>
> I very much doubt that.  Are you a sex offender yourself, as you seem to be
> very keen on defending them?

Sexual offending has the lowest reconviction rate of any crime (about
15-19%, in the UK, and lower than that for most sexual offences, UK
and elsewhere).

Recidivism and reoffending are different things, and are more
difficult to quantify. But, of course, except for the most serious
crimes (where one is indefinitely incarcerated i.e. murder, which are
small in number), this applies to all crimes and so the overall
percentages would be little changed.

WM