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A Matter of Fact
Loaded on July 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1997, page 12
A 15-year study of 1,300 sex offenders who were arrested in 1973, conducted by the California Dept. of Justice, found that 19.7 percent were re-arrested for a subsequent sex-offense. That figure may seem low, so in a dazzling example of statistical hocus-pocus, the study concluded that "sex offenders were five …
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