The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #86665   Message #1617624
Posted By: GUEST
30-Nov-05 - 07:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gary Glitter
Subject: RE: BS: Gary Glitter
Mted but it is people like yourself tht perpetuates the myth, just like the people who kept the satanic abuse myth running for years.
it is painful for some people to accept the truth because many need a scapegoat for all the ills in society and god help anyone who should try and remove,lessen or confront the figures of their hate.
i noticed that you quoted some spurious canadian source that claimed 2 out of 3 reoffend after 15 years. that is hogwash , the actual numbers that ever reoffend are very low, here are the official Government figures
# NCJ-163392 (February 7, 1997), Sex Offenses and Offenders: An Analysis of Data on Rape and Sexual Assault, finds the recidivism rate of 2,214 convicted rapists released from prison was 7.7% after three years. The only category of crimes with a lower recidivism rate are those persons convicted of murder (6.8%).

# NCJ-193427 (June, 2002), Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994, finds the recidivism rate of 3,138 convicted rapists released from prison was 2.5% after three years. The only category of crimes with a lower recidivism rate are those persons convicted of murder (1.2%).

In April, 2001, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) released a report also on the recidivism rate of released sex offenders. In Ten-Year Recidivism Follow-Up of 1989 Sex Offender Releases, Office of Policy, Bureau of Planning and Evaluation, Paul Konicek, Principle Researcher, (available at www.drc.state.oh.us), the recidivism rate of 879 sex offenders released from Ohio's prisons in 1989, after ten (10) years, was found to be 8% for new sex offenses.

The ODRC study finds its
When confronted with these facts the witchunters generally come up with the other excuse of 'well they must have had lots of other victims'   another example of how the media has brainwashed somepeople.