Research Debunks Stranger-Danger Myth
In Bacon’s Rebellion blog, June 18, 2023, Dick Hall-Sizemore expressed surprise that the Crime in Virginia 2022 report, page 21, found that “the relationship of the offender to the victim in forcible sex offenses in 2022” was known by the victim 91% of the time.
Approximately 93% of minors know their perpetrator, thereby debunking the stranger-danger myth. The offenders are most often family members, school or church staff, etc., and are often juveniles themselves, not people on the registry.
- Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, RAINN, Children and Teens: Statistics: Ninety-three percent of child victims know their perpetrator.
- Lake Geneva Regional News, “Wisconsin’s sex offender registry born of twin tragedies”, Emily Hamer, Wisconsin State Journal: “Sarah Wescott, corrections services supervisor for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections who also manages the registry…said 93% of victims know their perpetrator or are at least acquainted with them.”
- Bureau of Justice Statistics Study, 2021: More than 9 out of 10 sexual assaults are committed by someone known to the victim.
- SocialMiami.com, “Senator Lauren Book: Masks Do Not Increase Kidnapping Risk”, Lauren Book: “…’stranger danger’ is usually not a factor…Kids are virtually never grabbed off the street and pulled into an unmarked van.”
- “The Effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration and Notification: A meta-analysis of 25 years of findings”, Kristen Zgoba and Meghan Mitchell, 2021, under “Discussion”: “As upwards of ninety percent of victims and offenders know and prey on one another, we need to confront the uncomfortable truth that those who commit sexual offenses are usually not strangers.”
Sex offender registries simple allow more sexual offenses to occur because they give a false sense of security by promising that all a parent need to do is look for little red dots on a map and their child will not be at risk.
These is a now proven false claim and simply allow someone the child ALREADY KNOWS more confidence and opportunity (every one is looking at the registry) to commit a sex crime on their child.
Blame those who profit from this and look no further than Lauren Book for that.
Lauren and, most especially, Ron Book have destroyed more families in Florida than any other person or entity that ever existed here. Ron’s guilt per being an absentee and oblivious father has been tragic apocalypse for humanity
Absolutely agree. Ron Book is trying to sooth his own guilt by destroying others.