The title of the journal that I read is called “Are Sex Offenders Dangerous” from the Criminology and Public Journal Volume 3 Number 1 November 2003. There were many contributing authors in this research journal, their manes were Karen Terry, Lisa L. Sample, Timothy M. Bray, Nathaniel J. Pallone, and Richard G. Wright. During the 1980’s and 1990’s current legislation talks about mandating the collection of DNA, civil commitment, registration, and community notification of sex offenders.The overview is that the government is putting money and resources into rehabilitating or institutionalization to community-based alternatives for sex offenders. On the assumption that sex offenders will commit the same crime again then other crimes for example robbery or burglary. The belief on the theory is that without interventions or surveilling the sex offenders then will continue to commit the same crimes.
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Instead of using conviction data they used arrest data for the research. With not using the conviction data they avoid any bias that resulted in from plea bargains or charge reduction. With the use of three tables comparing ten of the most committed crimes you can see that figure one shows arrestees rearrested for any crime within one to 5 fives. However for figure two it shows the arrestees that have been rearrested for the same crime after their first first arrest and the percentages are low. As the for the last figure shows sex offenders that have registered in which they have a high percentage of reoffending. With regard to non-sex offenders becoming sex offenders only a small percentage of arrestees were rearrested for sex crimes. With the other categories no chargers were greater than three percent of the re arrested for a sex crime. The results offer no notion that the non sex offenders become sex offenders after committing