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sentenced to prison for a sex crime release from prison in 1994 (table 39). child within 3 years. Out-of-State against a child. At the time they In 180 cases (86.3%), the alleged arrests for child molesting accounted committed their imprisonment offense, crime took place in the State that for 13.5% of the 44 rearrested rapists most (62.9%) were age 30 and older, released him. In the 29 others (13.7%), and 13.7% of the 165 rearrested sexual and most (60.3%) molested a child it occurred elsewhere. assaulters. who was age 13 or younger (table 38). Some of the victims were below age 7. Sex offenders compared Child molesters and statutory rapists Nearly half of the men (48.4°/x) were 20 to non-sex offenders years or more older than the child they Police arrested 141 of the 4,295 were imprisoned for molesting. The 15 States in this study released released child molesters for repeating 262,420 non-sex offenders in 1994, of their crime (table 40). For 126 of them Among the men who were in prison for whom 1,042 were rearrested for a sex (89.2%), the new arrest for child molesting a child age 13 or younger crime against a child (not shown in molesting was in the same State that and who were released in 1994 for that table). Of the 1,042 arrests, 11 % were released them. For 15 (10.8%), the crime, 2.8% were subsequently out-of-State rearrests. The comparable new charges for child molesting were arrested for molesting another child. figure for released sex offenders was filed in a different State. Of those whose imprisonment offense higher: 14% (table 39). was against a 14- or 15-year-old, 3.7% Of the 443 statutory rapists released had a new arrest for child molesting Rapists and sexual assaulters from prison in 1994, 11 were after their release. Of the men who rearrested for child molesting. All 1 1 were in prison for molesting a 16- or Forty-four released rapists and 165 of the arrests were in the same State 17-year-old, 1.2% were arrested by released sexual assaulters were that released the men. police for molesting another child after rearrested for a sex crime against a leaving prison in 1994. Table 39. Where sex offenders were rearrested for a sex crime against a child Among the men who were 20 years or following their release from prison in 1994, by type of sex offender more older than the child they were imprisoned for molesting, 2.5% were Percent of rearrested prisoners rearrested for another sex offense State where rearrested Sexual within 3 years All Rapists assaulters against a child within the first 3 years Total 100% 100% 100% following their release. That is a lower rate than the 3.2% rate for men who Same State where released 86.3 86.5 86.3 were 10 to 19 years older than the child Another State 13.7 13.5 13.7 victim in their imprisonment offense, Total rearrested for a new and compared to the 3.6% for those 5 sex crime against a child 209 44 165 to 9 years older than the victim in their Note: The 209 rearrested sex offenders were released in 10 States, imprisonment offense. but table percentages are based on 9 States. State where rearrested for a sex Table 40. Where child molesters and statutory rapists were rearrested for a crime against a child sex crime against a child following their release from prison in 1994 Percent of rearrested prisoners When sex offenders were arrested for child Statutory new sex crimes against children after State where rearrested within 3 years molesters rapists their release, the new arrest typically Total 100% 100% occurred in the same State that released them. Those arrests are Same State where released 89.2 100 referred to as "in-State" arrests. When Another State 10.8 0 arrests occurred in a different State, Total rearrested for a new they are referred to as "out-of-State." sex crime against a child 141 11 Note: The 141 rearrested child molesters were released in 9 States, All sex Offenders but table percentages are based on 8 States. The 11 rearrested statutory rapists were released in 3 States, but table percentages Of the 9,691 sex offenders, 209 were are based on 2 states. rearrested for child molesting after their Recidivism of Sex Offenders Released from Prison in 1994 33 5OA-82