Assessing Variability in Offending Between Sex and Non-Sex Offenders Through Age 70

IF 1.1 4区医学 Q3 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI:10.1002/cbm.2379

Chelsey S. Narvey, Erin A. Orrick, Nhi Le, Nicole Leeper Piquero, Jennifer P. Rogers, Alex R. Piquero

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Abstract

Background

The criminal career paradigm represented a fundamental shift within criminology as it drew attention to the longitudinal patterning of offending, with research findings leading to important new insights on matters related to theory, methods and policy.

Aims

This study examines the longitudinal crime mix among sex and non-sex offenders.

Materials and Methods

Administrative data of over 43,000 individuals released from incarceration in the State of Texas through age 70 are used to examine crime mixture patterns.

Results

Key findings show that: having a sex offence history significantly decreased the likelihood of arrest by age and that having a first arrest for a sex offence was associated with significantly lower odds of any subsequent arrest and violent non-sex offence arrests.

Discussion

The criminal career patterns of sex offenders are not more specialised, violent, nor frequent compared to non-sex offenders.

Conclusion

Theories and policy associated with sex offenders must take into account their lack of crime type specialisation.

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评估性犯罪者和非性犯罪者在70岁之前的犯罪差异。

背景：犯罪生涯范式代表了犯罪学的一个根本转变，因为它引起了对犯罪纵向模式的关注，研究结果导致了对理论、方法和政策相关问题的重要新见解。目的：本研究考察性犯罪者和非性犯罪者的纵向犯罪组合。材料和方法：本研究使用了43,000多名从德克萨斯州监狱释放到70岁的人的行政数据来研究犯罪混合模式。结果：主要调查结果显示：有性犯罪史的人按年龄划分被捕的可能性显著降低，第一次因性犯罪被捕的人随后被捕的可能性显著降低，非暴力性犯罪被捕的可能性也显著降低。讨论：与非性犯罪者相比，性犯罪者的犯罪生涯模式并不更加专业化，暴力，也不频繁。结论：与性犯罪者相关的理论和政策必须考虑到他们缺乏犯罪类型专业化。

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期刊介绍： Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health – CBMH – aims to publish original material on any aspect of the relationship between mental state and criminal behaviour. Thus, we are interested in mental mechanisms associated with offending, regardless of whether the individual concerned has a mental disorder or not. We are interested in factors that influence such relationships, and particularly welcome studies about pathways into and out of crime. These will include studies of normal and abnormal development, of mental disorder and how that may lead to offending for a subgroup of sufferers, together with information about factors which mediate such a relationship.