HOMOSEXUAL OFFENDERS VS. CHILDREN: CRIMINALITY
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A fair number—about one fifth—of these offenders had juvenile records. However, a relatively large proportion of their juvenile offenses were serious, since 17 per cent ended in imprisonment for six months or more. In this they exceeded the prison group, of whom nearly one quarter had juvenile convictions and 16 per cent had sentences of six or more months. Technically one should not speak of juvenile “convictions” or “sentences,” but in actuality this is what they are, though under other labels. The homosexual offenders vs. children had the third (and nearly the second) largest number with records of juvenile sex offenses—10 per cent.
There is nothing unusual about the rapidity with which these men acquired their convictions as adults. About one quarter had been convicted of some crime by age eighteen, one third by age twenty, one half by twenty-three, and three quarters by thirty. This record lags behind that of the prison group. However, in convictions resulting in imprisonment for a year or more, essentially felony convictions, these offenders catch up with the prison group by age thirty and subsequently surpass it. This is because of their sex offenses, which are chiefly felonies; they have a higher per capita felony conviction than the members of the prison group.
The average (median) age of the homosexual offender vs. children when first convicted for any offense was twenty-four—a moderate age. His first conviction for a homosexual offense against a child came when he was thirty, the same age as the homosexual offenders vs. minors.
The ratio of sex-offense to nonsex-offense convictions, 53 per cent vs. 47 per cent, is in no way unusual and is quite similar to that of the homosexual offenders vs. adults and several other groups. Nor is the proportion of “pure” sex offenders, 54 per cent, remarkable.
The number of convictions per capita is large—4.03, a figure exceeded only by the aggressors vs. children and by the two notorious “repeaters,” the peepers and exhibitionists. However, the size of this figure is not due to sex offenses (the 2.15 per capita sex-offense figure is moderate) but to predilection for vagrancy-disorderly conduct convictions, in which they rank second with nearly one apiece. Indeed, these account for nearly half of their nonsex offenses, the largest proportion of any group. The other types of crime were correspondingly unimportant in terms of percentages, and offenses against the person were quite infrequent.
Examining now the sex offenses other than those against male children, we find that the homosexual offender vs. children favored male minors (52 per cent), to a lesser degree male adults (16 per cent), and to a still lesser degree females (14 per cent). Other sex offenses were numerically unimportant. In brief, these men were rather specialized in their sex offenses; 87 per cent of them were homosexual offenses.
Their recidivism rate was moderate, slightly higher than the prison group’s.
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