Risk assessment with female sex offenders: Can women meet the criteria of community protection laws?

Female Sexual Offending: A Neglected Criminal Justice Issue

“…Fourth, Vess (2011), asserts gender-specific assessments should be conducted to discover factors that contribute to female sex offending. Justice policymakers must recognize that FSOs exist and must be provided proper gender and case specific treatment in correctional settings.…”

Female Sexual Offending: A Neglected Criminal Justice Issue

“…Fourth, Vess (2011), asserts gender-specific assessments should be conducted to discover factors that contribute to female sex offending. Justice policymakers must recognize that FSOs exist and must be provided proper gender and case specific treatment in correctional settings.…”

Comparing Solo- and Co-Offending Female Sex Offenders on Variables of Pathology, Offense Characteristics, and Recidivism

“…Evaluators and treatment providers working with females who have sexually offended have few informative research results to guide their practice. In fact, females who are assigned risk levels for the public sex offender registry, or for supervision and treatment purposes, have not been given this risk level by any validated measures or procedures (Vess, 2011). In addition, treatment providers working with females are left wondering which criminogenic factors are important for rehabilitative focus.…”

“…To date, few studies have served to inform risk assessment or to aid in the effective treatment of these offenders. Female sex offenders are assigned risk levels and placed on sex offender registries without the existence of valid assessment tools (Vess, 2011). Current literature, though limited compared with males, has provided several typologies and distinctions that are beginning to inform risk and rehabilitation for female sex offenders.…”

Female Offenders in Child Sexual Abuse

“…This is an area in dire need of further research, and the dearth of empirically validated treatment approaches validated targeted instrumentation, which makes the practice of risk assessment and treatment incredibly problematic [68]. Acknowledging the literature that suggests female sexual offenders can be just as sexually aggressive as male sexual offenders, there exists a lack of psychometric measures specifically developed and validated to consider the developmental uniqueness, which has proven to complicate prosecution, civil commitment, and public protection [69,70].…”

Female Sexual Offending: A Neglected Criminal Justice Issue

“…Fourth, Vess (2011), asserts gender-specific assessments should be conducted to discover factors that contribute to female sex offending. Justice policymakers must recognize that FSOs exist and must be provided proper gender and case specific treatment in correctional settings.…”

Comparing Solo- and Co-Offending Female Sex Offenders on Variables of Pathology, Offense Characteristics, and Recidivism

“…Evaluators and treatment providers working with females who have sexually offended have few informative research results to guide their practice. In fact, females who are assigned risk levels for the public sex offender registry, or for supervision and treatment purposes, have not been given this risk level by any validated measures or procedures (Vess, 2011). In addition, treatment providers working with females are left wondering which criminogenic factors are important for rehabilitative focus.…”

“…To date, few studies have served to inform risk assessment or to aid in the effective treatment of these offenders. Female sex offenders are assigned risk levels and placed on sex offender registries without the existence of valid assessment tools (Vess, 2011). Current literature, though limited compared with males, has provided several typologies and distinctions that are beginning to inform risk and rehabilitation for female sex offenders.…”

Female Offenders in Child Sexual Abuse

“…This is an area in dire need of further research, and the dearth of empirically validated treatment approaches validated targeted instrumentation, which makes the practice of risk assessment and treatment incredibly problematic [68]. Acknowledging the literature that suggests female sexual offenders can be just as sexually aggressive as male sexual offenders, there exists a lack of psychometric measures specifically developed and validated to consider the developmental uniqueness, which has proven to complicate prosecution, civil commitment, and public protection [69,70].…”

Female Sexual Offending: A Neglected Criminal Justice Issue

“…Fourth, Vess (2011), asserts gender-specific assessments should be conducted to discover factors that contribute to female sex offending. Justice policymakers must recognize that FSOs exist and must be provided proper gender and case specific treatment in correctional settings.…”

Comparing Solo- and Co-Offending Female Sex Offenders on Variables of Pathology, Offense Characteristics, and Recidivism

“…Evaluators and treatment providers working with females who have sexually offended have few informative research results to guide their practice. In fact, females who are assigned risk levels for the public sex offender registry, or for supervision and treatment purposes, have not been given this risk level by any validated measures or procedures (Vess, 2011). In addition, treatment providers working with females are left wondering which criminogenic factors are important for rehabilitative focus.…”

“…To date, few studies have served to inform risk assessment or to aid in the effective treatment of these offenders. Female sex offenders are assigned risk levels and placed on sex offender registries without the existence of valid assessment tools (Vess, 2011). Current literature, though limited compared with males, has provided several typologies and distinctions that are beginning to inform risk and rehabilitation for female sex offenders.…”

Female Offenders in Child Sexual Abuse

“…This is an area in dire need of further research, and the dearth of empirically validated treatment approaches validated targeted instrumentation, which makes the practice of risk assessment and treatment incredibly problematic [68]. Acknowledging the literature that suggests female sexual offenders can be just as sexually aggressive as male sexual offenders, there exists a lack of psychometric measures specifically developed and validated to consider the developmental uniqueness, which has proven to complicate prosecution, civil commitment, and public protection [69,70].…”