Female Sex Offenders: A Controlled Comparisonof Offender and Victim/Crime Characteristics

摘要

The current study was a chart review of 31female sex offenders (FSO), 31 male sex offenders (MSO),31 female violent offenders (FO), and 31 male violentoffenders (MO) using a 2 (female or male) by 2 (sex orviolent offender) design. This is the first known study toemploy three control groups when researching female sexoffenders. Multiple. variables appeared related to genderand crime. However,- some variables emerged as FSOspecific. They reported the least alcohol abuse history andhad fewer admissions of guilt to the crime than the twoviolent offender samples. More FSOs knew their victimand were biologically related to their victim than MSOs.Lastly, the FSO sample was the least discriminating as totheir victim's gender and had the highest overall rate ofsexual victimization.