SEX OFFENDER TYPES
Sexual violence is a big threat to individuals and communities and this has become an issue of concern in the criminal justice system. The act has devastating consequences and in order to create a safe society, adequate resources and comprehensive understanding of offense pattern and risk is required. There are various sex offender typologies and this case we will look at two types namely; adult male rapists and adult female sexual offenders. Adult male rapists are sex offenders and are classified into various categories namely; sadistic rapists, power rapists and anger rapists (Alexander, 2010). Sadistic rapists express aggressiveness and sexually abuse individuals with mental and physical problems with an aim of exerting sadist hostility. Power rapists exert power and control to gain sexual fantasy over the victim. He is motivated to express dominance to the victim and he expresses sexual needs through aggression. Anger rapist aims to express the angry emotions and he is motivated to cause harm to the victim. He holds negative attitude and believes that he must cause harm to women due to real injustices. In generally, adult male rapists have nonsexual needs and they are controlled by sexually assaultive behaviors. Alexander (2010) adds that adult male rapists are compensatory which means that rapist express minimal aggressive with an aim of sexual fantasies. Last, Opportunistic rapists are driven by non-sexual needs while committing other crimes.
The second type of sexual offender is adult female sex offenders. Research on female sexual offenders shown that female offenders is characterized into heterosexual nurturer and this happens when women are involved in care-taking role and rape young teenage males (Johansson-Love & Fremouw, 2009). Second is non-criminal homosexual where women collaborate in female-male sexual abuse. Third is female sexual predator where women selects male victims and abuses them. Women are also involved in child exploiters where offenders are approximately 28years and abuses little children aged 11years. Homosexual criminal is also done by women where they force young girls to engage in sexual behaviors for financial gain (Johansson-Love & Fremouw, 2009).
According to Durling (2006), communities have been using residency restrictions and this has not been the best method for risk management. However, there should be other strategies other than restrictions in order to protect the community. In this case, Adult male rapists and adult female rapists are sex offenders which need to be addressed through risk assessment criteria. In this case, it is the role of criminal justice system to evaluate the offence, prior crimes and future risk (Durling, 2006). This will help to come up with restrictive measures. Note that legislators will evaluate offenses with great risk and which is likely to be reoffended. Through this type of evaluation, judges will impose more restrictions and longer prison sentences to high-risk offenders. The second strategy in addressing both sex offenders is indeterminate sentencing. This means that the criminal justice system should impose more restrictive controls by evaluating high-risk and low-risk offenders to proving long-term and short-term incarceration (Durling, 2006). Criminal justice system should also create reentry courts where sex offenders will gain management practices. Offenders will be reformed through treatment and adhering to polygraph testing.
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