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Did you know...

At the end of March 2009, the prison population stood at an all time high of over 83,000.

 

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At least 80% of child sex offenders are known to their victims, they are often a member of the family, a friend of the victim or a friend of the victim's family.

 

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Child sex offenders are subject to registration on the Sex Offenders Register for between 1 year and life, dependent upon sentence.

 

Did you know...what is happening about Sarah’s Law (disclosure of whereabouts of sexual offenders)?

As part of a Review of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenders, the Government will increase the amount of information about particular child sex offenders that is shared with the public.

The Government are not introducing a US-style Megan’s Law or automatic disclosure of child sex offender details to the general public, which would encourage offenders to go missing and therefore put children at greater risk. Instead a schme is being piloted whereby parents or legal guardians of children will be able to register a child-protection interest in a named individual who has regular unsupervised access to the child.  There will be a presumption that sexual offence convictions will be disclosed to them, where the offender is considered a risk. There is also a new legal duty on MAPPA to consider disclosing a child sex offender’s convictions to those who need to know – for example to employers, girlfriends, friends or family members where a child is at risk.

 

Did you know…what a Polygraph Test is?

Polygraphy is a means of measuring physiological responses associated with deception. The piloting of mandatory polygraphy is intended to begin later this year. The pilots will enable sex offenders to be tested and will enable decisions to be made on whether polygraphy is an effective way of increasing the disclosures they make are relevant to risk management.

 

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Nationally there are very few female sex offenders but in general the average of such offenders is between 18 – 27 and the children they abuse are their own children usually aged between new born and 3 years of age.

  

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Of the 83,000 offenders in prison, only a few will never be released.

There are a number of prisoners who are subject to an indeterminate public protection (IPP) sentence, which means that they are kept in prison until it has been assessed that they can be safely managed in the community, but even so, the likelihood is that the majority of such IPP prisoners will eventually be released.

MAPPA are the statutory arrangements operated by criminal justice and social care agencies that seek to reduce the serious re-offending behaviour of sexual and violent offenders and to protect the public once these offenders are returned to the community.