The Juvenile Female Sexual Offender: Characteristics, Treatment and Research

Finding the Right Assessment Measures for Young People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Display Harmful Sexual Behaviour

“…The RNR approach has been widespread in the study of adult sexual offenders but the development and adaptations of specialized assessment tools for any adolescents who display HSB have been limited. In many studies, assessments of the factors as above have met the specific needs of the young population by using child‐specific measures, but only a very limited number of studies have developed standardized measures (Frey ; Hunter ). Furthermore, to date, all such developments have focused on a non‐intellectual disability offender population.…”

Female Perpetrated Sexual Abuse and Pedophilia

“…11 These abuse histories often include higher levels of physical and sexual abuse, higher numbers of perpetrators in reference to their own sexual abuse in childhood, a higher probability of close familial relationships with their victims, a higher probability that their perpetrators were siblings, and a higher probability that the onset of their abuse happened at an earlier age and continued for a longer time than that experienced by male offenders. 12 We were unable to find any childhood abuse information about sexual abuse or neglect in the offending woman. However, when her chaotic life was taken into consideration, traumatic experiences in childhood (especially sexual abuse) might be evaluated as the existent risk factor in our patient.…”

Group Sexual Offending by Juvenile Females

“…Some studies reported predominantly male victims (Hunter et al, 1993;Mathews et al, 1997) while others reported mainly female victims (Hendriks & Bijleveld, 2006;Vandiver & Teske Jr, 2006). Most studies reported victims aged on average 11-12 years, and victims and offender were generally known to each other (Frey, 2010).…”

“…Our sample is small; however it is also complete in the sense that it comprises all juvenile female sexual offenders adjudicated in the Netherlands from 1994-2008. Frey (2010) conducted a literature review on juvenile female sexual offenders. She found that their families are characterized by moderate to severe dysfunctioning (Mathews, Hunter, & Vuz, 1997;Tardif et al, 2005) with many (>25%) shifts of caregivers (Roe-Sepowitz & Krysik, 2008) and inconsistent parenting (82%) (Hickey, McCrory, Farmer, & Vizard, 2008).…”