SEX OFFENDER STATISTICS
Sex Offenders The typical child sex offender molests an average of 117 children, most of who do not report the offence.
Source: National Institute of Mental Health, 1988.
About 60% of the male survivors sampled report at least one of their perpetrators to be female.
Source: Mendel, 1993.
About 95% of victims know their perpetrators.
Source: CCPCA, 1992.
It is estimated that approximately 71% of child sex offenders are under 35 and knew the victim at least casually. About 80% of these individuals fall within normal intelligence ranges; 59% gain sexual access to their victims through, seduction or enticement.
Source: Burgess & Groth, 1984.
*There are approximately 400,000 registered sex offenders in the US alone.
* Convicted rapists report that two-thirds of their victims were under 18 and 58% of those said their victims were age 12 or under.
* In 1994 only one third of the victims said that they reported being raped to a law enforcement agency.
* In 90% of the rapes of children under 12 years old, the offender knew the victim.
* 8 out of 10 rapists are released prior to trial.
* 61% of violent sex offenders have a prior record.
* 8 out of 10 sex assaulters reported that their victim was under 18. The median age of victims of imprisoned sex offenders was 13 years old.
* 24% of those serving time for rape and 19% of the ones serving time for sex assault were on probation at the time of arrest for rape or sexual assault.
* 28% of released rapists were rearrested within 3 years and charged for a new violent crime.
* 8 % of those are charged with another rape.
* Released rapists were found to be 10.5 times as likely as non-rapists to be rearrested for rape and those who served time are found to be 7.5 times as likely as those convicted of other crimes to be rearrested for a new sexual assault.
Provided by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics on Child Sexual Abuse; summaries of noteworthy research findings:
Sex offender statistics.
60% of convicted sex offenders on parole or probation.
Children and teenagers are victims.
Recidivism rates for crimes higher smong sex offenders.
Violent offenders and their victims.
Two-thirds of sex offenders in prisons victimized a child.
Family members of acquaintances most child murders.
Half of women raped were younger than 18 (1992).
Links to and statistics summarized from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics
Sex Offenders & their Victims (1997)
Link to updated BJS statistics on Sex Offenders
On a given day in 1994 there were approximately 234,000 offenders convicted of rape or sexual assault under the care, custody, or control of corrections agencies; nearly 60% of these sex offenders are under conditional supervision in the community.
The median age of the victims of imprisoned sexual assaulters was less than 13 years old; the median age of rape victims was about 22 years.
An estimated 24% of those serving time for rape and 19% of those serving time for sexual assault had been on probation or parole at the time of the offense for which they were in State prison in 1991.
Offenders who had victimized a child were on average 5 years older than the violent offenders who had committed their crimes against adults.
Nearly 25% of child victimizers were age 40 or older, but about 10% of the inmates with adult victims fell in that age range.
Convicted rape and sexual assault offenders serving time in State prisons report that two-thirds of their victims were under the age of 18, and 58% of those--or nearly 4 in 10 imprisoned violent sex offenders--said their victims were aged 12 or younger.
In 90% of the rapes of children less than 12 years old, the child knew the offender, according to police-recorded incident data.
Among victims 18 to 29 years old, two-thirds had a prior relationship with the rapist.
Four datasets (the FBI's UCR arrests, State felony court convictions, prison admissions, and the National Crime Victimization Survey) all point to a sex offender who is older than other violent offenders, generally in his early 30's, and more likely to be white than other violent offenders.