Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.
Violence Against Women. 2012 Apr;18(4):482-501. doi: 10.1177/1077801212452249. Epub 2012 Jul 16.
Jurisdictions in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia now have laws that enable preventive detention of post-sentence sex offenders based on an assessment of the offender's likely recidivism. Measures of recidivism, or risk assessments, rely on the criminal justice process to produce the "pool" of sex offenders studied. This article argues that recidivism research needs to be placed in the context of attrition studies that document the disproportionate and patterned attrition of sexual offenses and sexual offenders from the criminal justice process. Understanding the common biases that affect criminal prosecution of sex offenses would improve sexual violence prevention policies.
美国、英国和澳大利亚的司法管辖区现在都有法律，根据罪犯再次犯罪的可能性，对判刑后的性犯罪者进行预防性拘留。再犯率或风险评估依赖于刑事司法程序来产生所研究的性犯罪者“群体”。本文认为，再犯研究需要置于减损研究的背景下，这些研究记录了性犯罪和性犯罪者从刑事司法程序中不成比例和有模式地减损。了解影响性犯罪刑事起诉的常见偏见将有助于改进性暴力预防政策。
