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Female Sex Offenders

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Without a doubt it is statistically proven that women commit fewer crimes as a whole than men. In 2010, there were one million five hundred thousand men incarcerated compare to the number of female offenders, which was one hundred thirteen thousand. When it comes to sex offenders we often think of the male gender than females. We see females as nonviolent nurtures rather than violent human beings who are capable of committing crimes of sexual nature. This false ideology is due to the lack of reporting of sexual offenses committed by females as well as clinicians and other agencies not recognizing the fact the term sexual offenders can be used for females as well as males.

In the case study done by Stuckman-Johnson 28.5 percent of females reported to forcing men to partake in sexual intercourse and between the years of 1994 to 1998 there was a slight increase of seven percent that were reported. Of that 28 percent one to seven percent admitted to using physical force to restrain their victims, thirty-six percent admitted to getting their victims intoxicated before engaging in sexual acts, and another nine percent admitted to using a weapon. As of 2006, it was reported that female sex offenders that were convicted for rape made up for 3 percent of the population and other sexual offense were 5 percent of the population.

Throughout the years researchers directed their focus mainly on the study of male sex offenders as oppose to female offenders. It was even until 2012 that the FBI revised the definition of rape to include male victims. There hasn’t been an increase or decrease of female sex offenders. All though there has been an increase of awareness of female sex offenders, and this due recent media attention of female teachers having sexual intercourse with their young male students. Due to the lack of reporting and accepting of male victims getting an accurate statistic on female sex offenders provides a challenge to researchers and clinicians.

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References

Turvey, B. (2012). Criminal profiling an introduction to behavioral evidence analysis (4th ed.). Oxford: Academic Press Johnson, S. (2007). Female Sex Offenders. In Physical abusers and sexual offenders: Forensic and clinical strategies. Boca Raton, FL: CRC/Taylor & Francis. Graham, B. (2014). Female Sex Offenders. In Effective Child Abuse Investigation for the Multi-Disciplinary Team. CRC Press.