treats female sex offenders differently than male sex offenders, the punishments of female sex offenders are more lenient than men who commit the same types of crimes, and the differences between male and female victims are all perception and not reality. Objective considerations to additional factors make the perceptions baseless. These additional factors solidify the factual differences between male and female sex offenders. The acceptance that the court system often treats female offenders differently
The sex offenses were categorized one against child if they committed sexual acts of abuse of a victim four years younger and under the age of 12 years old, and otherwise labeled as peer-adult offense (Worling, 1995). Socioeconomic status was analyzed by the rating scale Blishen system which
Writing Assignment #1 CRIJ 2313-Dr.Koenigsberg 9/17/14 Juvenile Female Sex Offenders Wijkman, Miriam, Catrien Bijleveld, and Jan Hendriks. "Juvenile Female Sex Offenders: Offender And Offence Characteristics." European Journal Of Criminology 11.1 (2013): 23-38. European Journal Of Criminology. Web. 14 Sept. 2014. <http://euc.sagepub.com/content/11/1/23>. For this critical paper I evaluated the article, "Juvenile Female Sex Offenders: Offender And Offence Characteristics”. This article conforms to the
new phenomenon there has been a dramatic increase in the concern of this problem over the last two decades. As the number of juvenile sex offenders arrested increases, the recognition of it as a serious issue also increases. The anxiety over juvenile sex crimes has led to a wide variety of research being conducted to determine if there are antecedent traits in offenders. The tremendous data collected and analyzed to try to understand the factors leading a juvenile to sexually violate has piloted a wide
own way is sexual assault and the varieties of sex offenders that engage in those activities. A sex offender is anyone who commits a crime that involves any sexual act. Statistical data like risk assessment can help minimize and prevent some crimes that involve a sex offender. Risk assessment is defined as the probable threat that includes an action that involves a specific activity. In this case, the risk assessment would define sex offenders and the probable statistics that a sex offender would commit
experts have explored the different policies concerning sex offenders in the United States. Sexual violence is a growing concern and in order to decrease the incidence of these crimes, legislators have passed regulatory guidance such as policies, sexual offense registration, and community notification. This literature will explore the definition of sex offenders in the United States and research the different treatments associated with sexual offenders of all ages as well as promulgate the current legislation
What is sexual abuse? Sexual abuse is the unwanted sexual contact between two or more adults or two or more minors, any sexual contact between and adult and a minor, any unwanted sexual contact initiated by a youth toward and adult and any sexual contact between two minors with significant age difference between the two of them (COSM.org) The research on sex offenders continues to be an ongoing study. Since about 1969 the crimes associated with sex offenses have been in the spotlight, but more so
Sexual assault is a major global issue; sexual deviance such as sexual assault definitely needs a lot of social attention from many different societies across the globe (Nelson, 2007, p. 7). It is a very serious problem that needs to be continuously addressed, through research, government programs, and new fundamental treatment possibilities. As a matter of fact, it is continuing to spread rapidly with a percentage of 25% of women and 15% of men in the United States have been affected by sexual assault
the victim-offender cycle specifically regarding CSA became more frequent in the late 1990’s, so the studies summarized in this section will be studies based off these early studies. The more recent studies have improved upon older studies by great measures, so it is necessary only to go into depth with the newer information. One of the
Sex Offenders Brittany Pegram CJUS 340-D05 Criminology Professor Ryan Sharp Abstract In this paper I will discuss the typical profiling of sex offenders and how one cannot simply point them out in a crowd. I will discuss why sex offenders do not stand out from “normal” people. I will discuss a little bit of why these people do the things they do and what kind of cure there is for these crimes, if any. It is important to know why we cannot assume one is bad news, such as a sex offender and to find