Military service specifically elevates sex-crime imprisonment rates while lowering other crime rates.
Evidence
This conditioning, this kind of unofficial training that men experience in the military, is reflected in statistics showing that men who have spent time in the U.S. military are much more likely than their civilian counterparts to be imprisoned for sexual offenses. This is particularly striking because, compared to adult males without military experience, male veterans are much less likely to be imprisoned for other violent crimes, theft, robbery, and drug offenses. Sex crimes are the one exception. There appears to be something about what happens on base and in the barracks that makes it significantly more likely that a man will sexually victimize another person. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 588
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- QUESTION: What exactly about base life raises sex-crime likelihood — and does this pattern hold for veterans stationed abroad versus domestic posts?
Related
- Military service raises men’s sex-crime imprisonment odds while lowering other crime rates (similarity 0.97)
- Military service raises the likelihood of sexual offending while lowering other crime rates (similarity 0.95)
- In absolute numbers, more men than women are sexually victimized in the military. (similarity 0.83)
- Environmental conditions, not innate nature, make rape likely in the military. (similarity 0.82)
- Military environments structurally enable sexual assault regardless of recruits’ innate nature (similarity 0.82)
- Military bases foster the specific conditions that enable rape across human societies (similarity 0.80)
- One in three servicewomen is sexually assaulted, with base-abroad overrepresentation (similarity 0.80)
- By 2006 one in five enlisted troops had received moral waivers (similarity 0.80)
- Military sexual assault is rampant, with nearly one in three female veterans raped (similarity 0.79)
- Camptown sexual exploitation normalized in training drives later military sexual violence (similarity 0.79)
- Providing paid commercial sex keeps troops financially dependent and enlisted (similarity 0.78)