What percentage of the US population are sex offenders?
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depends what you classify a sex crime, in todays society two 12 year olds playing doctor are considered sex offenders.
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Nearly 2.3 percent of the citizens of the US were incarcerated 2003-2004 (2005 results have not yet been posted).
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If you live in the US, you can go to http://www.familywatchdog.us/ and look people up by the area they live in. The site has every sex offender listed in the United States.
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What a sex offender means in my mind is a person who has made a mistake, paid their debt to society, been in sex offender treatment therapy and should be granted their civil rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. \n\nSex offenders have the lowest recidivism rate of all criminals, with the exception of murder.\n\nA child has a much higher chance of being harmed by a drug dealer/user, drunk driver, gang related incident, etc. But you don't know where these people live do you?
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This is an enormously complex and divisive question.  In the LGBT community, the traditional wisdom is that it is 10% of the population.  There are some studies out there that support this number, others that say as high as 16% (a lot depends, by the way, on how you define "bisexual," particularly in women), and some other studies say as low as 2%.  In 2000, the last Census year before the current anti-Gay hysteria took over the Federal government, there was a lot of pressure to use the Census to begin to figure out just how many self-identified LGBT people there were in America, but the political backlash from the predictable Christian Right crowd stifled that.  Still, the census does reveal an astonishingly high number of people who are "heads of households" with biologically unrelated adults of the same gender in their home, so figure it out for yourself.
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Good luck in finding it. Just remember that not all sex offenders are pedophiles. Some just made a bad decision when they were younger and got involved with a seductive 16 year old or were got masturbating in a public bathroom or their tent at a campground. \n\nIn fact, the majority are probably not a threat to you or your children at all. Despite what Oprah says.
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There are a lot of resources that track sex offenders and where they live.  look around on the Internet.
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Probably between 6-8 percent, just like the general population. I don't know where you got the 1% from, but it's wrong.
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Search on the Internet! They list several sites for sex offenders! Try to focus on the .gov sites!
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90% do apparently! A small statistic report. Though all may not be americans.
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I've never felt the sex offender registry protected anyone. Many people believe there is a high rate of re-offending among sex offenders. This belief is caused by the misinformation portrayed by the media looking for ratings and politicians looking for votes.\n\nThe facts are, according to the US Dept. of Justice that only 3.5% of sex offenders will be reconvicted of another sex crime. The same US Dept. of Justice report states that it is far more likely someone with a previous drug conviction will be convicted of a sex offence than a sex offender. Current and pending legislation ignores these facts. Another fact is there have been more sex offenders murdered by vigilantes in the past year than children murdered by properly registered sex offenders. Those few sex offenders who went on to commit the heinous crime of murder were also drug abusers, they were not registered as required by law and no law would have stopped them.  Addresses and Pictures on the internet did not save one single child.\n\nWhile it is true there are some high risk offenders it is also true that most on the registries are not high risk. The majority of people on the registries go on to live a crime free life and reunite with, or build a new, family. These families do in fact include children. Are we to wait until one of these children are killed before changes are made? How many more murders must happen? \n\nThe only real way to protect our children is parental supervision. The vast majority of these highly publicized cases the past few years could have been prevented if the child's parent/guardian were present. In this day and age anyone who allows a 10 or 11 year old to walk the streets alone should be charged with child endangerment. Let's not forget that less than 10% of all sex crimes are reported. This means that for every sex offender in your neighborhood there are at least 9 who are not on the registry because they have not been reported or caught yet. \n\nIt is time for community groups, professionals and lawmakers to come up with solutions that will help stop the cycle of child sex abuse, and all sex crimes. The time for continuing to punish offenders who completed their court ordered sentences and their families for a crime someone else MIGHT commit needs to end. 80% of all sex offenders report being a childhood victim of sex abuse. Most never reported this and therefore never received victim treatment. With these facts in mind let's remember that today's victims are tomorrow’s offenders. Will the registries prevent this? NO
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I'm a bigger proponent of mandatory chemical castration.  Sex offenders are generally people with a mental defect (which is driven my a hormonal imbalance) that causes them to want to control the people they victimize.  The only way to completely eradicate their urge to do wrong (because they could alway drug their victims and then not have to grab them) is to take away the cause of the urge.
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To the person who is a Criminal Major. You are being taught what they want you to know, not what the truth is. To the person who mentioned a different study of each type of crime, you can read that exact study at the link this asker posted. \n\nThe recidivism rate for sex offenders is very low. It is much lower than any other crime, with the exception of murder.\n\nOne of you stated to ask the child. Well, I was molested as a child twice. Once at 6 and again at 11. I am not a VICTIM. I am a SURVIVOR. You will find if you talk to many of these people who are now adults they are survivors. We have several in our Yahoo support Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/roar_4_freedom\n\nBecoming a Survivor isn't easy, but it can be done. As many of us can attest too. The main thing that makes one a Survivor is learning to forgive. That is the problem with the many different therapists that have the victims in therapy. They only teach them that they are victims and they should hate. This is not the case and should not be a part of therapy. In many therapies this isn't done and these children lead productive normal lives.\n\nThe memory of what happened to them as a child will always be present, it is what they do with that memory that makes them a victim or a survivor. \n\nIf any of you were molested as a child, get into a good therapy session. Even if you are now an adult. You are also more than welcome to join our support group that I posted above.
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http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=ks&p=2005+crime+statistics+in+the+united+states%3F\n\nCHECK IT OUT
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www.nsopr.gov\n\nJust click on your state and type in your city and you can get a list of all of the sex offenders in the area.
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There is no way of knowing, especially when most gay people are secretive about it. But if I had to take a guess................ I would say 20-10% percent, and that is especially including San Francisco. That is also including bi-sexuals.
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A very high percentage of the people in prison today, were once the little boys you are talking about.  (I worked at a state Corrections - head office - dealt with the Division Directors).\n\nYou might want to go to: http://www.csom.org/  This is the federal government's Center for Sex Offender Management.\n\n While inmates overall have a recycle rate of about 30%, sex offenders repeat at about 60%.  A few years ago, CSOM did a study of sex offenders which concluded that on average, a unsupervised sex offender sexually abused somebody every 8 days.  Sadly, they have learned to get a sexual release by abusing somebody.\n\nVery few people who go this route are able to stop.  What can - or should - be done with them?  Release them back into a unsuspecting society?  Lock them up for life - and then send low paid prison guards in to break up their fights - and by killing a guard the inmate becomes a prison hero?  Or do we execute these people, and take the money that would have been spent putting them in prison and use it to provide mental health services to young kids who have been abused - so they avoid becoming the next generation of abusers?\n\nIts not a easy question - and there are no easy answers.  But to me, the best answer that is available today, is to have people on-line who pose as young kids and if somebody goes after them - then the authorities should step in and prosecute the predator.\n\nSome states will have the offender serve prison time and when their sentence is up - have them declared mentally insane so they can be held longer.   I can see the reason for this, but it really gives me a peek at Orwell's 1984 life.