Who will be the first to tell me I'm indulging in paranoid fantasies?

[Jackpine Radical]

13. The reactions of everyone here to sex offenders

shows why this is such a good place from which to attack civil rights. If you dare to suggest that there is a problem with how we treat them, you wil be vilified, as I'm now experiencing (not unexpectedly). You can do anything to a sex offender & both liberals & conservatives will applaud. Then you just move on the the next group & the next, until you can do whatever you want to whomever you want.

As for the recidivism data, there are many sources for that.

On the topic of pedophilia, the following study isn interesting:

The Utility of the Diagnosis of Pedophilia: A Comparison of Various Classification Procedures
Drew A. Kingston · Philip Firestone · Heather M. Moulden · John M. Bradford
Arch Sex Behav (2007) 36:423–436

Abstract
This study examined the utility of the diagnosis of pedophilia in a sample of extra-familial child molesters assessed at a university teaching hospital between 1982 and 1992. Pedophilia was defined in one of four ways: (1) DSM diagnosis made by a psychiatrist; (2) deviant phallometric profile; (3) DSM diagnosis and a deviant phallometric pro- file; and, (4) high scores based on the Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interest (Seto & Lalumie`re, 2001). Demographic data, psychological tests, and offence history were obtained and group differences were analyzed along with the ability of certain variables to contribute uniquely to the classification of pedophilia. Results indicated that few significant differ- ences existed on psychological measures between pedophilic and nonpedophilic extra-familial child molesters regardless of the classification system employed. Finally, results indi- cated that the procedures used to define pedophilia were not significantly related to one another. Results are discussed in terms of the utility of the diagnosis of pedophilia.