Thank Goodness For Porn, Eh?

25 July 2013

Proven Re-offending Statistics: Quarterly Bulletin, October 2010 to September 2011, England and Wales

"Executive summary

This report provides key statistics on proven re-offending in England and Wales.

It gives proven re-offending figures for offenders who were released from custody, received a non-custodial conviction at court, received a caution, reprimand, warning or tested positive for opiates or cocaine between October 2010 and September 2011.

Proven re-offending is defined as any offence committed in a one year follow-up period and receiving a court conviction, caution, reprimand or warning in the one year follow-up. Following this one year period, a further six month waiting period is allowed for cases to progress through the courts. Between October 2010 and September 2011, around 620,000 offenders(3) were cautioned(4), convicted (excluding immediate custodial sentences) or released from custody(5). Around 170,000 of these offenders committed a proven re-offence within a year.

This gives a one year proven re-offending rate of 26.9 per cent, which represents a small rise of 0.4 percentage points compared to the previous 12 months and a fall of 1.0 percentage points since 2000 (Table 1).
 
These re-offenders committed an average of 2.90 re-offences each.

In total, this represents around 490,000 re-offences of which 83 per cent were committed by adults and 17 per cent were committed by juveniles (Table 1).

>57.3 per cent (around 280,000) were committed by re-offenders with 11 or more previous offences (Table 6c).

>0.6 per cent (around 2,800) were serious violent/sexual proven re-offences (Table 8).

>5.0 per cent (around 24,000) were committed by re-offenders on the Prolific and other Priority Offender Programme (PPO) (Table 16)."

"Proven re-offending by index offence

The offence that leads to an offender being included in the relevant year is called the index offence.

Between October 2010 and September 2011, as in most previous years, domestic burglary had the highest proven re-offending rate at 50.3 per cent, and sexual (child) offences the lowest at 8.9 per cent. 

The largest decrease between 2000 and the 12 months ending September 2011 in the proven re-offending rate was for soliciting or prostitution with a decrease of 15.5 percentage points, followed by other motoring offences with a decrease of 12.3 percentage points (Table 5c)."

https://t.co/eOShPnTbPH 

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May 8, 2013

Accessible porn reduces rape and prostitution

"I find that internet access appears to be a substitute for rape; in particular, the results suggest that a 10 percentage point increase in internet access is associated with a decline in reported rape victimization of around 7.3%…internet has no apparent substitution effect on any of 25 other measured crimes, with the exception of the only other well-defined sex crime, prostitution. Moreover, I show that the effect on rape is concentrated among states with the highest male-to-female ratios, and that by age, the effect on rape is concentrated among teenage men, who are the prime consumers of pornography, and for whom the internet induced the largest change in availability."

obu-investigators.com/xuk/porn/clemson/kendall.pdf‎ (http://www.toddkendall.net/internetcrime.pdf)

Why The European Plan To Ban Porn Is A Bad Idea

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/08/1692561/european-porn-ban-bad-idea/

Porn Up, Rape Down
 
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=913013

Title: The Effects of Pornography: an international perspective

http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/1961to1999/1999-effects-of-pornography.html