Female Sex Offenders: What Therapists, Law Enforcement and Child Protective Services Need to Know - Softcover

Hislop PH.D., Julia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930461003 ISBN 13: 9781930461000

Publisher: Issues Press, 2005

Synopsis

For everyone responsible for the well being of children, this book explains one of the hardest to detect threats to their safety.

Female sex offenders have victimized an estimated two to three million people in the United States. As a society we find it nearly impossible to believe that females, usually seen as nurturing, are capable of sexual abuse.

The result is that, each year, hundreds of thousands of youth are not protected, not believed, and not treated for the trauma associated with the abuse. Through her detailed analysis of the currently available literature and her own research, Dr. Hislop describes what is known about female sex offenders: identification of abusers, estimates of the number of abusers and victims, the methods of abuse, the types of trauma seen among their victims, and what is known about the developmental histories of female sex offenders.

She also provides therapists with directions for treatment and prioritized treatment goals, including exploring the victimization and patterns of offending, the relationship between the offender’s own victimization and her offending, precursors to offending, and methods to stop offending.

About this title

About the Author:

Julia Hislop, Ph.D., has worked with physically and sexually abused children and adults, as well as child abusers and sex offenders, in a variety of settings. Her previous publications include Female Sexual Abusers: Three Views and Coping with Rejection.

Review:

A much needed resource. Hislop has done a good job pulling together the research in this area. -- Connie Schenk, Juvenile Forensics Psychologist

Well-documented introduction to an area that has... been ensconced in silence... Suitable for all areas of corrections. -- Gayle L. Turner, Corrections Compendium, Oct. 2001

About this edition

• Publisher: Issues Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1930461003
• ISBN 13: 9781930461000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 247