8567 - Stats

[scottobear]

Registered Sex Offender Counts by State

This list contains the actual number of offenders that are publicly viewable in the official state registries.

State	Number of offenders	Population	Offenders per million
AK	4160	700	5942.9
AL	4260	4631	919.9
AR	2314	2750	841.5
AZ	2384	5230	455.8
CA	44982	34441	1306.1
CO	6259	4468	1400.9
CT	4193	3317	1264.1
DC	634	529	1198.5
DE	1905	800	2381.2
FL	34052	16279	2091.8
GA	10590	8413	1258.8
HI	1485	1342	1106.6
IA	6059	2941	2060.2
ID	2722	1480	1839.2
IL	12376	12266	1009
IN	9154	6215	1472.9
KS	3608	2761	1306.8
KY	4813	4098	1174.5
LA	7063	4535	1557.4
MA	1443	6310	228.7
MD	4406	5467	805.9
ME	2400	1285	1867.7
MI	18080	9763	1851.9
MN	100	5005	20
MO	10605	5718	1854.7
MS	3997	2908	1374.5
MT	1559	1006	1549.7
NC	9726	8227	1182.2
ND	139	677	205.3
NE	1017	1761	577.5
NH	1352	1281	1055.4
NJ	2094	8392	249.5
NM	1608	2016	797.6
NV	2202	2070	1063.8
NY	10071	18250	551.8
OH	14735	11428	1289.4
OK	5233	3491	1499
OR	721	3613	199.6
PA	8325	12281	677.9
RI	52	1012	51.4
SC	8626	4033	2138.9
SD	2208	810	2725.9
TN	4229	5966	708.9
TX	34146	21487	1589.1
UT	3482	2411	1444.2
VA	13151	7324	1795.6
VT	255	638	399.7
WA	3304	6258	528
WI	8964	5479	1636.1
WY	106	568	186.6

The sad facts about sex offenses and those that perpetrate them.


* 1 of 5 girls will be sexually molested before her 18th birthday.
* 1 of 6 boys will be sexually molested before his 18th birthday.
* 1 of 5 children have been propositioned for sex over the Internet.
* 2 of 3 sexual abuses are perpetrated against teenagers or younger children.
* 90% of sexual assaults are committed against someone the perpetrator knows.
* The median age for male molestation victims under 18 is 9.8 years old.
* The median age for female molestation victims under 18 is 9.6 years old.
* There are new 400,000 victims of sexual assault every year.
* There are over 550,000 registered sex offenders in the US.
* There are over 100,000 sex offenders that fail to register in the US.
* 76% of serial rapists claim they were molested as children.
* Over 40% of male juvenile delinquents were molested as children.
* The typical sexual predator will assault 117 times before being caught.
* The re-arrest rate for convicted child molesters is 52%.

Sources:

Russell, D.E.H. and Bolen, R.M., 2000. The Epidemic of Rape and Child Sexual Abuse in the United States. Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications.

Snyder, H.N., U. S. Department of Justice Statistics, 2000. Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement: Victim, Incident, and Offender Characteristics.

Center for Sex Offender Management, (2001). Recidivism of Sex Offenders, Full Report and Statistics.

Family Watchdog - predator tracking

Comments

[legal-beagle555.livejournal.com]

If I ever have kids, I'm moving to Minnesota.

[peradouro.livejournal.com]

Confused. There's 50 listings but no WV. Are they counting DC as a state? These numbers are something I've wished people could see for a long long time.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

West Virginia, Nevada, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Vermont are a little out of whack, detail-wise. more data needs to be gathered.

[peradouro.livejournal.com]

Ah I see. Thanks for responding.

[i.livejournal.com]

what does "sexually molested" mean?

if a girl/boy has an 18 yr old lover at 17, is that sexual molestation?

[i.livejournal.com]

also, urinating in public, as in beside the road next to your car, is a sexual offense.

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

Wonder what the percentage of individual children who are molested on more than one occasion, by different adults is. 1 child -- how many adults.

Also stats on where most occurances happen. --As best as that could be approximated anyway). Stores, open street/public, churches, schools, one's own home, relative's homes, Etc.

"The typical sexual predator will assault 117 times before being caught."

117 times for the just TYPICAL pred? Ugh. Separately, assault doesn't always come in physical form. I wonder how the author is using the word here? Though, merely approaching a child about anything sexual, can be traumatic for some children - trust me.

[home-grown-cl.livejournal.com]

We have a new system in schools this year where every single visitor on campus has to swipe their license for a check against the sexual predator database. The only problem with this is that we have parents that are on the list, and we can't prevent them from coming to their child's school. At least we know and can watch them, but how uncomfortable is that?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I thought that a sexual predator is disallowed from going to schools, even if they have a kid there!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I believe they're using they're using the word assault to mean both improper words or touches.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

That depends on the judge (usually, it's an "exposure in public / or lewd behavor" issue)

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Molested : the act of subjecting someone to unwanted or improper sexual advances or activity

Having sex with someone under the age of consent is illegal. Dending on the state, the age can be as low as 14, or as high as 18. The national average is at 16.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_America

for a bigger breakdown.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

sorry, I meant the age can be as low as 12.

"Thanks, Colorado!"

ugh.