>"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
>and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
>
>THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
>and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
>
>THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
>and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
>
>THEN THEY CAME for me
>and by that time no one was left to speak up."
>
>Somehow you confuse insightful with maudlin. <s>
>
>Funny, I don't see any perverted child molesters in that list.
>
>This forum needs a serious wakeup call on the # of violent sex offenders who are released and then do it again.

Yeah, fewer than for almost any other crime:

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism#Recidivism_rates, which cites http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/.

"Released prisoners with the highest rearrest rates were robbers (70.2%), burglars (74.0%), larcenists (74.6%), motor vehicle thieves (78.8%), those in prison for possessing or selling stolen property (77.4%), and those in prison for possessing, using, or selling illegal weapons (70.2%).

Within 3 years, 2.5% of released rapists were arrested for another rape, and 1.2% of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for homicide. These are the lowest rates of re-arrest for the same category of crime."

Now I'll admit that's specifically rapists, not "violent sex offenders." I've elsewhere seen a 15% rate for sex offenders being arrested again for _any_ crime.

Tamar