Female Sex Offenders: Perception is Not Reality

Perception is not a reality. In the court system, it is common to treat general assumptions of female sex offenders in a different way than male sex offenders. It is recognition and not reality. Objective consideration of other factors makes this view unfounded. These additional factors reinforce the real differences between male and female sex offenders.

Female sex offenders have lower sexual and general recidivism rates than male sex offenders. The sexual recidivism rate of female sex offenders may be as low as 1% to 3% in 5 to 6 years. Empirical evidence on the difference in recidivism between female and male sex offenders requires that intervention and management practices need to distinguish between sex offenders of women and men and the procedure to evaluate the risk of male sex offenders is female Suggesting that it is unlikely to be accurate when applied to. Sex criminals (Cortoni, Hanson & Coache, 2010). In addition, before collecting strong empirical evidence on the relevant factors of female sex offenders, the assessment and intervention of female sex offenders is based on scientific evidence on female criminals more than male sex offenders It should be promoted. Knowledge (Cortoni & Hanson, 2005; Canadian Public Security Bureau, 2006)

In recent years, people are increasingly concerned about female sex offenders. Since the research of female offenders is a rather new research field, most of the existing research is exploratory and often not methodologically complicated. Most studies have examined very small sample sizes, which limit the generality of the results. For example, literature review on female sex offenders in 2006 only identified 13 empirical studies, including samples older than 10 years between 1989 and 2004 (Johansson-Love and Fremouw , 2006). Of the 13 studies confirmed, only 8 female sex offenders were compared with the control group. Without the comparative group, we could not determine if any of the factors found in the female sex criminal group were more or less likely than male sex offenders. In addition, most of the samples were from imprisoned people or the clinical environment.