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Assessing Variability in Offending Between Sex and Non-Sex Offenders Through Age 70
Chelsey S Narvey1, Erin A Orrick1, Nhi Le1
1Department of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA.
Background:
The criminal career paradigm represented a fundamental shift within criminology as it drew attention to the longitudinal patterning of offending, with research findings leading to important new insights on matters related to theory, methods and policy.
Aims:
This study examines the longitudinal crime mix among sex and non-sex offenders.
Materials And Methods:
Administrative data of over 43,000 individuals released from incarceration in the State of Texas through age 70 are used to examine crime mixture patterns.
Results:
Key findings show that: having a sex offence history significantly decreased the likelihood of arrest by age and that having a first arrest for a sex offence was associated with significantly lower odds of any subsequent arrest and violent non-sex offence arrests.
Discussion:
The criminal career patterns of sex offenders are not more specialised, violent, nor frequent compared to non-sex offenders.
Conclusion:
Theories and policy associated with sex offenders must take into account their lack of crime type specialisation.
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