Sunday, September 29, 2013

Department of Justice: Victim Offender Relationships

Bureau of Justice Victim/Offender Relationships
Recidivism of Sex Offenders Released from Prison in 1994, 11/03 NCJ 198281, the largest study of recidivism ever. However, there was one key piece of information not available to the researchers, "victim/offender" relationships.
To resolve that the DOJ extrapolated from BJS Survey of "Inmates in State Correctional Facilities, 1997" data on 73,116 prisoners who reported having one victim. Those prisoners represented 84% of all incarcerated male sex offenders in 1997 NATIONWIDE. This chart shows the 73,116 victim/offender relationships. See pg-36 this study.

Relevant highlights: Victims who are under 18 years old were 70.5% of all victims, of that, 51.6% were 12 or under, and, 48.4% were between 13 and 17.


Department of Justice: Victim/Offender Relationship Statistics
"Recidivism of Sex Offenders Released from Prison in 1994"
(NCJ 198281 Pub 2003)

All:
Family 35.7%
Friends & Acquaintances 48.7%
Stranger 15.6%
over 18:
Family 10.6%
Friends & Acquaintances 55.0%
Stranger 34.4%
under 18:
Family 46.5%
Friends & Acquaintances 46.8%
Stranger 6.7%

The Victim was the Offender's --- All Victim/s were
over 18
Victim/s were
under 18
Spouse 1.1% (804) 3.8% (796) 0.0%
Ex-Spouse 0.6% (438) 2.0% (419) 0.0%
Parent / Step parent 0.6% (438) 0.4% (84) 0.6% (300)
Own Child 11.5% (8,409) 1.4% (293) 15.7% (7,854)
Step Child 11.2% (8,189) 0.4% (84) 15.8% (7,904)
Sibling / Step sibling 1.3% (950) 0.4% (84) 1.7% (850)
Other Relative 9.4% (6,873) 2.1% (440) 12.7% (6,354)
Family total--
35.7% (26,101) 10.6% (2,200) 46.5% (23,262)

Boy / Girl friend 5.5% (4021) 8.2% (1,719) 4.4% (2,202)
Ex-Boy / Girl friend 1.1% (804) 2.0% (419) 0.8% (400)
Friend / Ex-Friend 22.7% (16,599) 24.8% (5,198) 22.0% (11,006)
Acquaintance / Other 19.4% (14,186) 20.1% (4,213) 19.6% (9,806)
Friends & Acquaintances total--
48.7% (35,610) 55% (11,549) 46.8% (23,414)

Stranger 15.6%(11,406) 34.4% (7,209) 6.7% (3,351)
Stranger total--
15.6 % (11,406) 34.4% (7,209) 6.7% (3,351)

Grand total--
100 % (73,116) 100% (20,958) 100% (50,027)

Construction of chart- DOJ Pg-36 chart: "Characteristics of victims of rape or sexual assault, for which male inmates were serving a sentence in State prisons, 1997" indicates those stats were extrapolated from 1997 BJS Survey of "Inmates in State Correctional Facilities." Using only the victim offender portion of that pg-36 chart, and applying those percentages to the 73,116 cases, this chart was created showing specific victim offender relationship numbers and percentages.
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