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  • Forensic Psychology
  • Criminology
  • Sexual Offender Risk Assessment

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  • Estimating sexual recidivism is challenging due to undetected offenses.
  • Risk assessment often relies on documented charges, not true reoffense risk.
  • Quantifying undetected sexual offending yields varied estimates.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if sanctions for detected sexual offenses enhance the detection of subsequent offenses.
  • To determine if sanctions suppress undetected sexual offending in high-risk individuals.
  • To analyze the impact of sanctions on the proportion of undetected to detected sexual offenses.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of a high-risk sample committed as Sexually Violent Persons.
  • Examination of the relationship between initial sanctions and subsequent offense detection rates.
  • Comparison of offending detection rates before and after sanctions.

Main Results:

  • The detection rate of sexual offenses significantly increased after the imposition of an initial sanction.
  • The proportion of undetected to detected sexual offending decreased post-sanction.
  • This effect was specifically noted after the first sanction applied.

Conclusions:

  • Sanctions appear to increase the detectability of sexual offenses, thereby reducing undetected offending.
  • The findings suggest that interventions, specifically sanctions, can impact the rate of undetected sexual offending.
  • The study sample demonstrated a high detection rate and limited community time before re-arrest, contrasting with other reports.