Lifetime Sex Offender Recidivism: A 25-Year Follow-Up Study

By R. Langevin, S. Curnoe, P. Fedoroff, R. Bennett, Mara Langevin, Cheryl Peever, Rick Pettica, Shameen Sandhu. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Clinical Psychology

1. J. Levenson
2. G. Willis
3. R. Tewksbury
4. M. Rice
5. Grant T. Harris
6. Wesley G. Jennings
7. Tony Ward
8. R. Wollert

In Sociology and Political Science

1. J. Levenson
2. G. Willis
3. R. Tewksbury
4. M. Rice
5. Grant T. Harris
6. Wesley G. Jennings
7. Tony Ward
8. R. Wollert

Citations in the corpus

• Characterizing the Value of Actuarial Violence Risk Assessments (2007, background): “These studies (e.g., Hanson, Steffy, & Gauthier, 1993; Harris et al., 2003; Langevin et al., 2004; Prentky, Lee, Knight, & Cerce, 1997; Rice, Quinsey, & Harris, 1991) generally indicate that approximately 30% of sex offenders released from secure custody will have subsequent offenses recorded as…”
• Desistance and Attitudes Towards Sex Offenders: Facilitation or Hindrance? (2010, background): “Other studies have found life time reoffending rates to be significantly higher than what is commonly cited with Langevin et al. (2004) stating that when undetected sex offences are used approximately 88.3% of their sample of 351 committed further offences over a period of 25 years.”
• LOW BASE RATES LIMIT EXPERT CERTAINTY WHEN CURRENT ACTUARIALS ARE USED TO IDENTIFY SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATORS An Application of Bayes's Theorem (2006, background): “Two of them (Langevin et al., 2004; Prentky et al., 1997) are of limited relevance for SVP hearings, for example, because they monitored subjects with 3 to 4 times as many convictions as the “prison-release” population to which SVP laws are applied (Janus & Meehl, 1997), 90% of whom have been…”
• Assessing the Impact of Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification On Sex-Offending Trajectories (2010, background): “According to Langevin et al. (2004), variability in sex offender recidivism rates is attributable to different measuring and defining criteria and sources of information, varying follow-up times, and underreporting of sex offenses.”
• Beyond sexual recidivism : a review of the sexual criminal career parameters of adult sex offenders (2013, unknown): “However, early descriptive studies of sex offenders' criminal records were not supported by an organizing conceptual framework which led to the emergence of controversies among researchers about the nature and extent of sex offenders' criminal behavior (e.g., Abel & Rouleau, 1990; Langevin et al., 2”