Often times the term female sex offenders is taken lightly, due to the fact that society hasn’t grasp the reality that female sex offenders do exist, society still has the stereotype that only men are sex offenders. Therefore, it comes as a shock that females can and are sex offenders, although this is startling realism that has been ignored for year’s society has begun to raise alertness to this unthinkable issue.
The state of California created the 1st sexual offender registry in 1947, since 1947 every state in the United States now has a sex offender register, however since its inception the sexual offender register has grown in numbers of thousands with ninety six percent of those thousands each year was done by males, females still make up that four percent. Female sex offenders are rare and because female offenders are so rare psychologist and professional find it difficult to define an exact summary of a typical female sexual abuser. (Robinson, B., 2013).
A recent research conducted by the Bureau of Justice found that adolescent minors in juvenile correctional facilities who informed authorities about sexual offensives were done by staff, of those offensives the Bureau of Justice stated that ninety five percent of those assaults were done by female staff. (Gannon, T. A., & Alleyne, E. 2013). A different study which observed over seventeen thousand survivors of juvenile sexual abuse, found that less than twenty three percent were sexually molested and abused by females only, while another twenty two percent had both men and women offenders. (Gannon, T. A., & Alleyne, E. 2013).
The number of female sexual offenders has maintained over the past twenty years at a rate of less than twenty percent per year increase.
References
Gannon, T. A., & Alleyne, E. (2013). Female sexual abusers� cognition: A systematic review. Trauma Violence Abuse, 14(2), 67-70. doi:10.1177/152.
Robinson, B., (2013). Female Offenders Driven by More Than Sex, article retrieved from ABC news, http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92325&page=1#.UYb32LWG0g0.
