Female perpetrators of child sexual abuse: A review of the clinical and empirical literature–A 20-year update

S Augarde, M Rydon-Grange - Aggression and violent behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
A comprehensive and well-cited review on the topic of female child sex offenders was
published by Grayston and DeLuca in 1999. Over the past twenty years, the clinical and …

[BOK][B] Criminology

S Jones - 2021 - books.google.com
The seventh edition of Criminology provides students with a comprehensive analysis of the
major criminological theories. Drawing on a wide range of research in order to consider both …

The gender gap in sex offender punishment

RT Shields, JC Cochran - Journal of quantitative criminology, 2020 - Springer
Objectives This paper tests theoretical arguments that suggest court actors hold gendered
views of sex offenders that result in a gender gap in sex offender punishment, where women …

The effectiveness of psychological intervention for women who committed child sexual abuse: an empty systematic review

M Sousa, C Gouveia, B Freitas… - Trauma, Violence, & …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
The topic of sex offenses committed by women has received relatively little attention until
recent decades. The scarcity of research in this domain underscores the urgent need for a …

Female sexual offenders

F Cortoni, G Stefanov - The Wiley handbook of what works with …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding and working with women who have sexually offended require an
understanding of the nature of sexual offending by women, and gender‐specific …

A descriptive study of psychosocial characteristics and offense patterns in females with online child pornography offenses

W Bickart, AM McLearen, MD Grady… - … , psychology and law, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Despite a growing body of literature on females who sexually offend, there is a dearth of
research on online sexual offending in women. This study collected descriptive psychosocial …

Veterans in prison for sexual offenses: Characteristics and reentry service needs

AK Finlay, J McGuire, J Bronson… - Sexual …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Among prison-incarcerated men in the United States, more veterans (35%) have a sexual
offense conviction than nonveterans (23%). Limited research has investigated factors …

Multiple perpetrator rape committed by female offenders: a comparison of solo, duo, and 3+ group offenders

MDS Wijkman, T da Silva - Sexual Abuse, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous studies on multiple perpetrator rapes have shown that male sexual offenders who
commit their offense alone differ on offender, offense, and victim characteristics from those …

Latent profile analysis predicting recidivism among women who have sexually offended

JH Hong, HA Miller, Y Liu, PA Kulesz… - Sexual …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The few existing typology studies on women who have sexually offended (WWSO) have
largely been limited by small sample sizes, have not included scale scores from risk …

Perceived dangerousness mediates punitive attitudes toward sex offenders: Results from a vignette experiment

NE Kruis, KS Ménard, J Choi… - Crime & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The current study used an experimental vignette (n= 1,093) to examine the effects of
perpetrator sex and age, and victim sex and age, on simulated juror sentencing …