Understanding sex crimes

The first thing you should do in order to understand sex crimes is to throw out everything you have ever read about them in your favorite novel. Because, while there is no doubt that these crimes need to be stopped, most sex offenders are not some kind of sociopathic monsters who want to rape and murder and have unaccounted for euphoria at the thought. They are out there, I'm sure but they are very few.

So while that novel by J. Patterson, F. Kellerman, J. Sanford, or W. Johnstone might keep you riveted and on the edge of your seat, it is by no means indicative of more that 99% of the offenders who actually commit a sex crime.

Now, once you have discarded the notion that all persons who commit sex crimes are sociopaths, you should realize that there are numerous categories of sex crimes and that, generally speaking, someone who commits one type of sex offense will not commit an offense in the other category.

There are 4 broad categories of sex offenses. They are:

• 1) Forcible Rape,
• 2) Statutory Rape,
• 3) Incest, and
• 4) Offenses against Children.

While I have read and studied all the different categories, my main topics will be in the areas of Incest and Crimes against Children -- as they are related to my case and I believe they need the most attention.

(The percentages that I have used and will be using come from a study by John Hopkins Hospital and by numerous articles and studies done by the National Criminal Justice and Statistics. Any of these articles can be found online.)