RECIDIVISM RATES AND OFFENSE SPECIALIZATION IN THE CASE OF SEXUAL OFFENDERS
RECIDIVISM RATES AND OFFENSE SPECIALIZATION IN THE CASE OF SEXUAL OFFENDERS

Summary/Abstract: Recidivism refers to the act of reoffending by any person who has been arrested, convicted and incarcerated for a criminal activity. Recidivism may be general (a criminal activity of any kind) or sexual (a criminal activity of sexual nature). The literature contains a number of controversies regarding sexual offenders, some authors sustain that these delinquents are specialized in this type of crime while others affirm that most criminal acts committed by these perpetrators are of non sexual nature. In the present paper we present in a unitary manner the conclusions of a series of studies regarding the rate of recidivism of sexual offenses. These studies were identified by using as keywords “sexual offenders” and “recidivism” in the Ebsco and Proquest databases.

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