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. 1994 Dec;75(3 Pt 1):1326.
doi: 10.2466/pr0.1994.75.3.1326.

Child molestation, rape, and ethnicity

J West  1 , D I Templer
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Child molestation, rape, and ethnicity

J West et al. Psychol Rep. 1994 Dec.

Abstract

Of 206 convicted sex offenders in a men's prison a disproportionate number of child molesters were white and a disproportionate number of rapists were black. Of the 758 inmates in general, a disproportionate number of both child molesters and rapists were white (n = 171 vs 35 black men).

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