Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders / Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health

by New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders

SEXUAL OFFENDERS IN NEW ZEALAND.

The Prisons Department has furnished the following return of sexual offenders serving sentences in New Zealand prisons in 1924: The total number of sexual offenders, 192; the total number of sexual offenders born in New Zealand, 126; the total number of sexual offenders born out of New Zealand, 66; the total number of persons in the prisons serving sentences exceeding three months, 980; the total number of New-Zealand-born prisoners, 673; proportion of sexual offenders—New-Zealand-born to total number of New-Zealand-born criminals, 18.722; total number of prisoners born outside New Zealand, 307; proportion of sexual offenders born outside New Zealand to prisoners born outside New Zealand, 21.498.

TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF SEXUAL OFFENDERS SENTENCED UNDER THE RESPECTIVE HEADINGS IN NEW ZEALAND PRISONS AS ON 31ST AUGUST, 1924.

Carnal Knowledge and Attempted Carnal Knowledge.	Indecent Assault.	Indecent Act.	Indecent Exposure.	Incest and Attempted Incest.	Sodomy and Attempted Sodomy.	Rape and Attempted Rape.	Manslaughter.	TOTAL
30	106	3	9	18	23	19	1[A]	209[B]

[A] Victim an old lady, aged 71, who died as the result of a struggle, in which prisoner committed rape upon her.

[B] Number includes 17 prisoners who appear under more than one of the above headings, therefore the actual number of individual offenders total 192.

Number of sentenced prisoners (exceeding three months) in custody on the 31st August, 1924, was 980, therefore sexual offenders (192 individuals) represent 19.592 per cent. of the sentenced prison population serving periods exceeding three months.