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Victims of sex crimes Survey of State inmates Among inmates who were in prison for percent of the inmates reported their a sex crime against a child, the child child victims to have been strangers. The 9,691 prisoners in this study were was the prisoner's own child or step- Among adult victims, 34% were all men sentenced to prison for sex child in a third of the cases. Seven strangers to their attacker. crimes. Characteristics of the victims of these sex crimes were largely Characteristics of victims of rape or sexual assault, for which male inmates unavailable for the study. For informa- were serving a sentence in State prisons, 1997 tion on imprisoned sex offenders and Percent of victims of rape or sexual assault their victims, data were drawn from a Victim age survey covering the approximately Victim characteristic All 18 years or older Under 18 years 73,000 male sex offenders in State Total 100% 100% 100% prisons nationwide in 1997. Gender Male 8.8% 2.8% 111% Of the 73,000 victims of their sex Female 91.2 97.2 88.9 crimes - Race - about 90% were female white 73.2% 66.0% 76.4% - nearly 75% were white Black 22.8 30.2 19.4 - 89% were non-Hispanic Other 4.0 3.8 4.2 - 36% were below age 13 Hispanic origin - altogether, 70% were under age 18. Hispanic 11.3% 9.9% 12-1% Non-Hispanic 88.7 90.1 87.9 Child victims of sex crimes were more Age likely than adult victims to be male 12 or under 36.4% 51.6% 1 % versus 3%). Whites made u 13-17 34.1 48.4 (1 p 18-24 10.8 36.7% 76% of child victims and 66% of adult 25-34 11.2 37.9 victims. 35-34 7.0 23.8 55 or over 0.5 1.6 The biggest difference between child Victim was the prisoner's - victims and adult victims was their Spouse 1.1% 3.8% 0% relationship to the man who committed Ex-spouse 0.6 2.0 0 the sex crime: Parent/steppa rent 0.6 0.4 0.6 Own child 11.5 1.4 15.7 Stepchild 112 0.4 15.8 Among cases where the victim was Sibling/stepsibling 1.3 0.4 1.7 under 18, the boy or girl was the Other relative 9.4 2.1 12.7 prisoner's own child (16%), stepchild Boy/girlfriend 5.5 8.2 4.4 Ex-boy/girlfriend 1.1 2.0 0.8 (16%), sibling or stepsibling (2%), or Friend/ex-friend 22.7 24.8 22.0 other relative (13%) in nearly half of all Acquaintance/other 19.4 20.1 19.6 child victim cases (46%). Among Stranger 15.6 34.4 6.7 cases where the victim was an adult, Total estimated number 73,116 20,958 50,027 the victim was a relative less Note: Data are from the BJS Survey of Inmates in State Correctional Facilities, 1997. This table often (111 is based on 73,116 prisoners who reported having one victim in the crime for which they were sentenced to prison. (They accounted for approximately 84% of all incarcerated male sex offenders in 1997) .Data identifying victim's sex were reported for 99.8% of the 73,116 males incarcerated for sex crimes; victim's race were reported for 98.9%; Hispanic origin for 98.2%; victim's age for 97.1 victim's relationship to prisoner for 98.3%. Detail may not sum to total due to missing data for age of victim. --Not applicable. 36 Recidivism of Sex Offenders Re/eased from Prison in 1994 5OA-85