article_snippet.sent: The brothers of men convicted of sex offences are five times more likely than average to commit similar crimes, according to researchers.
article_snippet.sent: The brothers of men convicted of sex offences also found the sons of fathers with a criminal record for sex offending were nearly four times more likely to be convicted of such crimes.
article_snippet.sent: The brothers of men convicted of sex offences are five times more likely than average to commit similar crimes, a study found.
article_snippet.sent: But the researchers stressed that this did not mean a man with a brother or father convicted of rape would inevitably follow in a brother or father convicted of rape footsteps.
article_snippet.sent: n’t inherit in some kind of automatised robotic way so that you will grow up to be a sexual offender.
article_snippet.sent: The scientists studied data on all men convicted of sexual offences in Sweden between 1973 and 2009.
article_snippet.sent: Rates of sexual offending there are similar to those in the UK.
article_snippet.sent: Of the 21,566 offenders, nearly half had convictions for adult rape or child molesting.
article_snippet.sent: Other crimes included possession of child pornography, indecent exposure and sexual harassment.
article_snippet.sent: In terms of absolute risk, being closely related to an offender only led to a small increase in the chances of committing a sexual crime.
article_snippet.sent: Just 2.5 per cent of brothers of sex offenders were convicted of similar crimes, compared with 0.5 per cent of men in the general population, according to the study reported in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
article_snippet.sent: Less than one per cent of convicted sex offenders are women
article_snippet.sent: Christopher Davis left was jailed for 14 months and Christopher Davis brother Timothy (right) given a community sentence for child pornography offences .
highlights_snippet.sent: Swedish research finds tendency to sex offences passed down male line .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Sons of fathers who commit sex crimes four times likely to be convicted .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Researchers explain brothers and sons do not inevitably go on to offend .