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HETEROSEXUAL AGGRESSORS VS. CHILDREN: CRIMINALITY

March 27, 2009

The aggressors vs. children might be described as the most criminal of all the sex offenders. Forty-eight per cent had been convicted of some nonjuvenile offense by age twenty, 76 per cent by age twenty-six (a figure close to that of the prison group), and 92 per cent by age forty—moderate to somewhat large percentages. The average (median) aggressor was twenty-three when he was first convicted of any crime, and he was first convicted of aggression against a child at thirty-six—a lengthy gap.

The extensive criminality of the aggressors vs. children is best seen in the total number of convictions per capita: 5.5, by far the largest figure of any group. The prison group can boast of only 3.5. These aggressors also have the largest number of felonies: 2.6, and the second largest number of sex offenses: 2.2.

While most of their sex offenses were aggressions vs. female children, they were not infrequently convicted of sexual activity with children where force or duress had not (or not yet) been applied.

Despite their 2.2 sex offenses per man, they had more nonsexual convictions (59 per cent) than sex-offense convictions (41 per cent)— the only group of sex offenders in which other crime clearly outweighed sex offenses. Similarly, they had the smallest proportion of men convicted only for sex offenses: 12 per cent.

Their nonsexual crimes were largely crimes against property (about one third of all their convictions) and a mixture of vagrancy and disorderly conduct (another third). These aggressors are the only group that averaged one or more crimes against property plus one or more vagrancy-disorderly conduct offenses per man. No other group could boast as much as one specific nonsexual crime per man. In addition, the aggressors vs. children had a fairly large number of convictions for crimes against the person: 15 per cent.

They are obviously quite recidivistic in their criminal behavior; 28 per cent had seven or more convictions and 48 per cent had from four to six. This leaves a mere 8 per cent each in categories of one, two, and three convictions.

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