Female Sexual Offending
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M. Delisi & P.J. Conis
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It is well known that men commit more crimes than women, but they commit an even greater proportion of sexual crimes. Compared to their male counterparts, women who do commit sexual offenses are usually subject to extreme media coverage and a fierce double standard. Female sexual offenders receive differential treatment at every level of the criminal justice system from law enforcement through legal processing and corrections. When compared to men convicted of the same offenses, women often appear to be held to a different standard not only in the eyes of the law, but also in the eyes of the media and by the larger community. Understanding crime by women requires criminology to think outside of its typically male perspective. As one can imagine, describing female sexual offending requires an even bigger paradigm shift. This chapter provides an overview of the nature and extent of sexual offending by women. It reviews the many typological approaches that have been developed to explain female sexual offenders, including descriptions of what might be considered "typical" examples of each classification. In addition, the chapter focuses more specifically on the differential treatment that male and female sexual offenders receive in the news media and in the criminal justice system owing to their crimes.
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Violent offenders: Theory, research, policy, and practice
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2nd
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Criminology not elsewhere classified