With the Sandusky trial uppermost in the news and recent pro-pedophilia comments to “Pedophilia -Time to Normalize? orginally posted on FOTM last August, the following information is provided as a public service. I suggest you bookmark the Family Watchdog website and share it as widely as possible.
Check out the Family Watchd0g website. It provides a Searchable/Map to identify the location of registered sex offenders who may live in your neighborhood. I live within a mile of elementary, middle school and high school. I just did a search and found the mugshot and case details of one individual convicted of indecent exposure who lives next door to a Christian Teen Center about 3 blocks from the high school.
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This list contains the actual number of offenders that are publicly viewable in the official state registries.
| state | number of offenders | population in thousands | offenders per million |
| ALABAMA | 9843 | 4631 | 2125.5 |
| ALASKA | 2945 | 700 | 4207.1 |
| ARIZONA | 4800 | 5230 | 917.8 |
| ARKANSAS | 5831 | 2750 | 2120.4 |
| CALIFORNIA | 65884 | 34441 | 1913 |
| COLORADO | 131 | 4468 | 29.3 |
| CONNECTICUT | 5506 | 3317 | 1659.9 |
| DELAWARE | 3244 | 800 | 4055 |
| DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | 914 | 529 | 1727.8 |
| FLORIDA | 57362 | 16279 | 3523.7 |
| GEORGIA | 63 | 8413 | 7.5 |
| HAWAII | 3339 | 1342 | 2488.1 |
| IDAHO | 3647 | 1480 | 2464.2 |
| ILLINOIS | 25736 | 12266 | 2098.2 |
| INDIANA | 11579 | 6215 | 1863.1 |
| IOWA | 5442 | 2941 | 1850.4 |
| KANSAS | 6489 | 2761 | 2350.2 |
| KENTUCKY | 481 | 4098 | 117.4 |
| LOUISIANA | 10905 | 4535 | 2404.6 |
| MAINE | 2921 | 1285 | 2273.2 |
| MARYLAND | 7953 | 5467 | 1454.7 |
| MASSACHUSETTS | 3497 | 6310 | 554.2 |
| MICHIGAN | 36835 | 9763 | 3772.9 |
| MINNESOTA | 256 | 5005 | 51.1 |
| MISSISSIPPI | 7072 | 2908 | 2431.9 |
| MISSOURI | 13784 | 5718 | 2410.6 |
| MONTANA | 2134 | 1006 | 2121.3 |
| NEBRASKA | 3848 | 1761 | 2185.1 |
| NEVADA | 3375 | 2070 | 1630.4 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE | 2192 | 1281 | 1711.2 |
| NEW JERSEY | 34 | 8392 | 4.1 |
| NEW MEXICO | 2680 | 2016 | 1329.4 |
| NEW YORK | 19839 | 18250 | 1087.1 |
| NORTH CAROLINA | 18692 | 8227 | 2272 |
| NORTH DAKOTA | 456 | 677 | 673.6 |
| OHIO | 19580 | 11428 | 1713.3 |
| OKLAHOMA | 7181 | 3491 | 2057 |
| OREGON | 690 | 3613 | 191 |
| PENNSYLVANIA | 11866 | 12281 | 966.2 |
| RHODE ISLAND | 478 | 1012 | 472.3 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA | 11557 | 4033 | 2865.6 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA | 2966 | 810 | 3661.7 |
| TENNESSEE | 18482 | 5966 | 3097.9 |
| TEXAS | 68680 | 21487 | 3196.4 |
| UTAH | 7269 | 2411 | 3014.9 |
| VERMONT | 1419 | 638 | 2224.1 |
| VIRGINIA | 18646 | 7324 | 2545.9 |
| WASHINGTON | 6424 | 6258 | 1026.5 |
| WEST VIRGINIA | 3413 | 1849 | 1845.9 |
| WISCONSIN | 20708 | 5479 | 3779.5 |
| WYOMING | 1542 | 568 | 2714.8 |
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I agree Watchdog can be a good tool for keeping children safe. At the same time, the term “sex offender” is used to cover such a wide variety of crimes that it can make it seem like there is a creepy pedophile around every corner. A former youth group member of mine was arrested at age 18 for having sex with his 15 year old girlfriend. They are now both in their 20s and still together. He is on the sex offender list for his crime, though I don’t for a second think that he is a danger to my children or anyone elses. I know that there are others on the list who have similar stories. Somehow it doesn’t seem fair to linken them with grown adults hurting little children.
Criminal behavior often escalates over time. Today’s indecent exposure may be child molestation or worse next year. Half a mile in the opposite direction is a 29 year old man convicted of 3rd degree child rape. In my opinion, he should never have been released from prison. If they’re living in my neighborhood, I want to know!
Sorry, but you’re incorrect. Almost all research on this subject indicates that people who have committed non-contact crimes will NOT go on to commit a contact crime. This is a myth. Do you even know what the legal definition of a “child” is? Anyone under 18. Do you know when the actual crime occurred? No, the only thing listed is the conviction date. The registry is designed to SCARE you, not make you aware. This “3rd degree child rape” could very likely be a case of consensual teenage sex. And even if it’s not, how does the registry protect you from the people who simply haven’t been caught yet? Recidivism rates for sex offenders are in the single digits, and 96% of sex crimes are committed by people who AREN’T ON THE REGISTRY. I mean honestly, you use Jerry Sandusky as the reason for checking the registry… do you understand that he WAS NOT ON IT?
We can hardly expect truth from a commenter whose blog is called iloveasexoffender.blogspot.com.
I have morning chores to do, so I’ll just respond to one of your spurious claims — that “recidivism rates for sex offenders are in the single digits.”
To begin, the word “recidivism” must be defined. What “recidivism” means here is NOT a sex offender returning to commit sex offenses. The word as used here refers only to the RE-ARREST of an individual who was previously arrested and convicted of a sex crime — which means whatever statistics we have do not pertain to all the sex offenders who still commit sex crimes but have not been caught doing so.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics in 2003 which:
“present for the first time, data on the rearrest, reconviction, and reimprisonment of 9,691 male sex offenders, including 4,295 child molesters, who were tracked for 3 years after their release from prisons in 15 States in 1994. The 9,691 are two-thirds of all the male sex offenders released from prisons in the United States in 1994. The study represents the largest followup ever conducted of convicted sex offenders following discharge from prison and provides the most comprehensive assessment of their behavior after release.
Within 3 years following their release, 5.3% of sex offenders (men who had committed rape or sexual assault) were rearrested for another sex crime. Compared to non-sex offenders released from State prisons, released sex offenders were 4 times more likely to be rearrested for a sex crime.”
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=1136
Shana, I am for every avenue and device, however incomplete or imperfect, that protects people from sexual predators. Why aren’t you?
did you know that sex offenders can come off the list if they have been clean for 10 years ( meaning not caught yet ). I have a sexual offender right down the street and asked the police about him being removed, and that’s what they told me.
Alaska has the highest count of sex offenders per million in the population, at 4207.1 — which means for every 1,000,000 Alaskans, 4,207 are sex offenders.
I wonder why? Someone should do a statistical analysis of this state sex offenders data, to see what the correlates are.
I was going to add that some of those states are ridiculously low. 129 in Colorado? 34 in New Jersey? As Tony Soprano would say… “fuggedaboudit” that shows a lack of enforcement….and I know for a fact that some states, especially in the deep south – have ridiculously draconian laws and enforcement, with boatloads of “sex offenders” who were teenagers having sex with two year younger girlfriends or worse, someone caught skinnydipping or sunbathing in what they thought was private or at least private-ish.
Before you rush to check the registry… please remember that Jerry Sandusky was not on it. The registry is chock full of many non-dangerous people… including children (yes, your precious registry publicly humiliates children and teens). 96% of sex crimes are committed by people who are not on the registry (link: http://www.rethinking.org.nz/images/newsletter%20PDF/Issue%2078/C%2002%20watchedpot.pdf.)
The recidivism rates for sex offenders are in the single digits (www.endsexcrime.org/theproof.html#recidivism.)
Please remember that most sex offenders have families and children of their own. They deserve just as much safety and privacy as anyone else.