Despite this, David admitted he was not 100% sure he would never reoffend again.
"We need intelligent sentencing based on punishment... protecting the public and... making people not reoffend, " he explained.
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Public registers drive serious offenders underground, which makes them harder to track and more likely to reoffend.
Statistically, offenders that have a place to work and live and are reintegrated into society typically don't reoffend.
The reason for that is that the convicted sex offender is less likely to reoffend than any other criminal.
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The campaigners also agreed that prison just makes life harder for women - so they are more likely to reoffend.
Several studies suggest that making it harder for sex offenders to find a home or a job makes them more likely to reoffend.
Politicians pushing the get-tough approach sometimes claim that sex offenders are mostly incorrigible: that three-quarters or even nine out of ten of them reoffend.
About 80% of those jailed in Scotland receive sentences of six months or less, and of those released from jail, 62% reoffend within two years.
After 5 years there is s 5% chance to reoffend sexually.
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After 10 years there is a 3% chance to reoffend.
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Police figures suggest one in 12 people who attends a speed awareness course is likely to be stopped again for speeding, whereas one in four drivers who collects the points is likely to reoffend.
Historically, we know what encourages convicts to rehabilitate: they must be young, non-violent, dispersed into small communities that know what they are up to, compelled to work, remunerated and punished if they abscond or reoffend.
Now the question must be, in what state of mind are they going to come out, because if you treat them like animals they'll reoffend, if you do something to tackle reoffending the chances are that they might not.
Since then, a number of studies have found that youth sex offenders are less likely to reoffend than adult sex offenders, who also have extremely low recidivism rates when compared to people convicted of robbery, burglary, larceny, murder and other non-sex offenses.
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Prison doesn't work, is also, I think a simplistic phrase, because it assumes that nobody is going to be cured or nobody's not going to reoffend - that's not true either, because 45 per cent don't reoffend and, the figures show, that if you work at them then you can raise that figure.
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