NCJ Number
230482
Journal
Criminal Justice and Behavior Volume: 37 Issue: 5 Dated: May 2010 Pages: 520-536
Date Published
May 2010
Length
17 pages
Annotation
This study attemps to examine whether a failure to register (FTR) conviction affected the risk of recidivism anong sex offenders relased from Minnesota prisons between 2000 and 2004.
Abstract
Failure to register (FTR) as a predatory offender recently supplanted criminal sexual conduct as the most common recidivism offense for sex offenders released from Minnesota prisons. To date, however, little is known about FTR. The authors attempted to address this gap by examining recidivism outcomes among inmates required to register as predatory offenders who were released from Minnesota prisons between 2000 and 2004. In particular, they analyzed whether an FTR offense (or history of any FTR offense) had a significant impact on sexual, general, and FTR recidivism. To minimize observed differences between FTR and non-FTR offenders, propensity score matching was used to create the non-FTR comparison group. Results from the Cox regression models indicate that an FTR offense did not have a significant effect on either sexual or general recidivism. In contrast, the findings suggested that an FTR conviction significantly increased the risk of recidivism for another FTR offense. Moreover, the results indicated that offenders with at least a GED or high school diploma at the time of release had a significantly reduced risk of FTR recidivism. Tables and references (Published Abstract)