Sex Crimes and Offenders
Chapter 1
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Introduction
• What is a sex crime?
• What are some categories of sex crimes?
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Overview of Sex Crimes
• Rape/sexual battery
• Sexual assault
– What is the difference between sexual assault and
sexual battery?
• Child sexual abuse
• Incest offenses
• Indecent exposure/public indecency
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Overview of Sex Crimes
• Statutory rape
• Internet/technology related offenses
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Special Legal Issues
• Difficulty in generalizing offenses across states
• Variation in sex crime statute’s design
• Decriminalization efforts vary across states
– Wilson v State (2007)
– SORNA
– “Sexting”
• Laws subject to judicial challenge
– Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition (2002)
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Sex Offender Typologies
• Why have sex offender typologies?
• How were sex offender typologies developed?
• Major Sex Offender Typologies
1) Child molesters
2) Rapists
3) Juvenile sex offenders
4) Female sex offenders
5) Cyber sex offenders
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Child Molesters
• Groth and Birnbaum
– Fixated or regressed
• Knight and Prentky’s classification system
– Axis I and axis II
• FBI typologies
– Motivation continuum
– Situational vs. referential offenders
• See table 1.1
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Rapists
• Groth’s typology
– 1) Anger; 2) Power; 3) Sadistic
• Knight and Prentky’s rapist typology (MTC: R3)
– Expands Groth’s typology
– 1) Opportunistic; 2) Pervasively angry;
3) Sexual gratification; 4) Vindictive
– All sub-types create a nine-type classification
system
• Hazelwood and Warren’s impulsive vs. ritualistic
– Based off law enforcement experience
– Impulsive and ritualistic offenders
• See table 1.2
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Juvenile Sex Offenders
• O’Brien and Bera’s typology
– 7 categories
• Naïve experimenter, under-socialized, pseudo-socialized, sexual
aggressive, sexual compulsive, disturbed impulsive, and group
influenced
• Prentky and colleagues (J-SOAP)
– More fully developed version of O’Brien and Bera’s
typology
• Worling’s typology
– Empirically derived personality-based subgroups (4)
– Antisocial/impulsive; unusual/isolated;
overcontrolled/reserved; confident/aggressive
• See Table 1.3
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Female Sex Offender
• Mathews et al.’s typology
– 3 categories
• Male-coerced; predisposed; teacher/lover
• Syed and William’s typology
– Separated male-coerced and male-accompanied
– Added anger as motivation offender category
• Vandiver and Kercher
– 6 categories
• Heterosexual nurturers; noncriminal homosexual; female sexual
predator; young adult child exploiters; homosexual criminals;
aggressive homosexual criminals
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