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Female Sex Offenders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Art A. O'Connor
Art A. O'Connor*
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG
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Abstract

Information on 19 women convicted of indecency and 62 women convicted of other sex offences was examined. Those convicted of indecency offences often had poor social skills and had a high incidence of mental illness, mental handicap and alcoholism. Two were convicted of indecent exposure, a rare offence in women. In 39 (63%) of the sex offences with individual victims, the victims were children and in 9 cases the offender was the mother or step-mother. In 25 cases the women were convicted of aiding and abetting a male offender. Of those convicted of indecent assault on persons under 16 and of gross indecency with children, 48% had a previous history of psychiatric disorder.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 150 , Issue 5 , May 1987 , pp. 615 - 620
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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