{"id":5429,"date":"2016-03-27T08:37:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T12:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5429"},"modified":"2022-04-25T08:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:22:03","slug":"when-facts-arent-facts-a-look-at-the-effectiveness-of-sexual-offender-registries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5429","title":{"rendered":"When facts aren&#8217;t facts: A look at the effectiveness of sexual offender registries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=photo><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"95%\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/cumberlink.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/20\/d20b058d-bedc-541a-86e9-3e92486cd3a8\/56f56481e06fb.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C690\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=caption>photo: the sentinel<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;However, overwhelming research has shown that sexual offenders, as a whole, are some of the least likely groups to commit new crimes, Rydberg said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rydberg said one major study found that only about 5 percent of sexual offenders committed a new sexual crime within five years. The U.S. Department of Justice places the re-offense rate for sexual offenders as low as 3 to 10 percent, and a study conducted by Karl Hanson found that out of 8,000 offenders that were tracked, none who remained offense-free for 15 years were likely to reoffend after.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/cumberlink.com\/news\/local\/closer_look\/when-facts-aren-t-facts-a-look-at-the-effectiveness\/article_01b3ec77-053f-5a8f-8436-5cab0a2090c6.html\">article<\/a> by Joshua Vaughan in T<em>he Sentinel<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo: the sentinel &#8220;However, overwhelming research has shown that sexual offenders, as a whole, are some of the least likely groups to commit new crimes, Rydberg said. &#8220;Rydberg said one major study found that only about 5 percent of sexual offenders committed a new sexual crime within five years. The U.S. Department of Justice places&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5429\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When facts aren&#8217;t facts: A look at the effectiveness of sexual offender registries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5429"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9220,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions\/9220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}