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Salter A.

Transforming Trauma

USA (1995)

"One of the most startling findings to come out of the recent literature on sex offenders is the extent to which even incest offenders have committed high numbers of nonsexual crimes."

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Some researchers have claimed that although detected recidivism among sex offenders is low, they are responsible for vast numbers of undetected crimes. But this claim does not rest on very secure foundations. Anna Salter in her book 'Transforming Trauma' (USA, 1995) can identify only six studies in the previous 20 years in which sex offenders were invited to admit undetected crimes anonymously, and the bulk of the evidence comes from just one of those six, by far the largest, Abel et al. (1987).