Sexual Offending Behaviour: Hand-Off Sexual Offending

Question 1

What are to paraphilia examples of hands off sexual offenders? Has there been more research on other sex crimes besides these?

Answer 1

• Voyeurism - sexual gratification from watching someone ( peeping tom)
• Exhibitionism: sexual gratification from exposing self (flasher)
• little research relative to other sex crimes is available

Question 2

Langstrom and Seto (2006) :
Found that _% of the Swedish general population admitted to ___ behaviour and __% to ___. It was found that this behaviour declines around age __.

Answer 2

• 3% - exhibitionistic
• 8% - voyeurism
• 40

Question 3

Adolescent Sex offending:

- Pre 1980’s this behaviour was viewed as what?

Answer 3

• normal sexual experimentation

Question 4

Adolescent Sex Offending:
- Crime reports and Victimization surveys report that _% of rapes and -% of child sexual abuse incidents are committed by adolescents.

Answer 4

• 20%

- 30-50%

Question 5

Adolescent Sex Offending:
- Ryan et al. (1996) investigated victim characteristics and found that adolescent sex offenders tend to victimize young ___ victims, _% of victims were under the age of 9.

Answer 5

• female

- 69%

Question 6

About 2-5% of all incarcerated sex offenders are male or female?

Answer 6

• female

Question 7

Of the 5% of college men who were molested as children, _% were molested by a female. Do most male victims view the act as non-censual?

Answer 7

• 60%

- Most male victims do not view the act as non-censual

Question 8

What are the four types of Female sex offenders?

Answer 8

1. Teacher/lover- initiate the sexual abuse of an adolescence (usually male) from a position of power obtained through either age or status (mother, aunt, guardian). often unaware that their behaviour is unacceptable. Seek a loving relationship with the victim and does not realize they are harming the victim because to them it seems mutually beneficial..
2. Male-coerced - the female is coerced by a male to participate in sexual abuse. These women endorse traditional roles in relationships (homemaker, mother/wife) and the partner is the breadwinner. Likely to join in on sexual abuse which their partner has already committed on his own.
3. Male-accompanied - participate much more actively in the abuse with their partner. They are not reluctant like the previous one.
4. predisposed - independently intiate sexual abuse. They themselves have been victims of sexual abuse in childhood and abused by other people throughout their lives. Their victims tend to be family members, often their own children. Victims are also physically abused and neglected by the offender.

Question 9

Recidivism of Sexual Offenders:

- True sexual recidivism rate is -%.

Answer 9

• 10-20%

L> tends to decrease once caught

Question 10

Recidivism of Sexual Offenders:
- Hanson and Brussiere (1998) -
L> Over 4-5 years - recidivism was _%
L> It is much __ than non-violent crime at _% and __ to other forms of violence at _%.
L> In a 15-30 year follow up sexual re-offending was found to be _%.

Answer 10

• 13%
• lower, 37%
  L> similar, 12%
• 42% (remember there was a longer time period for them to reoffend…this may not be a good rep)

Question 11

Describe the Highest risk group for Recidivism of sexual offending?

Answer 11

• history of sexual offending prior to index offence
• extra-familial male victims
• never married
• rapists

Question 12

Trends:

• Incest
• Rapists
• Extra CM

Answer 12

• occurs in early adulthood and decreases as they age
• occurs early adulthood and decreases until 40-49 where it spikes and then begins to go down again.
• They are fairly active until the age range 45-49 where they decrease.