英文摘要 |
"After the government in Taiwan began the implementation of treatment for sexual offenders during their service of sentence in 1994, there has been several changes in related prevention and control measures or criminal policies for communities and institutional treatment. However, changes should be made based on a sufficient understanding of the phenomena. Therefore, the method of secondary data analysis was adopted in the study to sort out the demographic characteristics, types of execution, performance of crime and records of recidivism of the sexual offenders. The phenomenon of sexual recidivism was investigated to form the basis for the development of prevention measures in the future.
The research subjects were the sexual offenders who served their full sentence or were on parole (excluding the ones who were transferred to other prisons or dead) in Taipei Prison, Taichung Prison and Kaohsiung Prison in 2006 and 2007, totally 996 people. The annual sexual recidivism rates and survival time of the subjects were investigated, and the relationships among the various characteristics of the sexual offenders and the recidivism rates were also analyzed.
The research results showed: (1) There were 5.62% of the sexual offenders committing other sexual offenses and 32.83% of the sexual offenders committing non-sexual crimes within 5 years after release from prison. Among these cases of non-sexual crimes, property crime cases were the most common ones; (2) There were the most sexual offenders committing other sexual offenses within the first year after release from prison, and the recidivism events gradually decreased year by year. There was 0 recidivism event in the eighth year after release from prison; (3) Although those sexual offenders who received compulsory treatment before imprisonment had a higher sexual recidivism rate, the relationship between the compulsory treatment and sexual recidivism did not reach a significance level; (4) The sexual offenders who were younger when being released from prison, with lower educational attainments, committing crime against the victims’ wills and were not the family members of the victims had a higher sexual recidivism rate; (5) The sexual offenders who were older and the family members of the victims had lower recidivism rates in both sexual offenses and non-sexual crimes in comparison with the sexual offenders who were younger and not the family members of the victims.
Based on the research findings, it is suggested that (1) The foreign assessment tools and risk classification method shall be validated in our country; (2) Community-based crime monitoring shall be implemented in the peak period of recidivism, and more goals of recidivism prevention shall be set; (3) A localized risk prediction scale for the recidivism of domestic sexual offenders shall be developed." |