Offender Gender

Rich Offender, Poor Offender: Why It (Sometimes) Matters in Sentencing

Gender and offender status predicting treatment success in refugees and asylum seekers with PTSD

BACKGROUND Current knowledge is limited regarding patient characteristics related to treatment outcome of posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD) in refugees and asylum seekers. OBJECTIVE Gender, torture status, offender status, level of anger, and level of depression were investigated for possible effects on the treatment outcome. METHOD Patient characteristics were explored in 54 refugees a...

Serial Rape: Offender Profiling

The victim ages ranged from 10 to 43 years. On each occasion the victim was attacked at night in her own home. The offender was often disguised and also often armed himself with a knife, which he obtained from within the dwelling house and which he used to threaten the victim. The sexual attacks often involved severe physical as well as sexual violence. The offender was not deterred by the pres...

The Female Offender

The appearance of this series, of which this work is the pioneer, marks an epoch in the history of English penal administration. Signs are not wanting that the English public are beginning to become aware of the work done with regard to the criminal in France and Italy. The lately published report of the Special Committee on English prisons directs attention to this work. It shows that in Engla...

Sex Offender Treatment Programs

Although the number of convicted sex offenders grew from 2,768 in 1990 to 3,875 in 1995, the rate of reported sexual offences generally declined in recent years. In 1997, the rate of reported sexual offences was 101 per 100,000 people, a massive decline from a high of 135 per 100,000 people in 1993. Furthermore, there is an increasing amount of research that supports the idea that sex offenders...