Abstract
This chapter shows the different feminist perspectives on female sex offending and how 'doing gender' may inform these understandings. It assesses the historical and contemporary trends in sex-offender treatment. The chapter identifies the sex-offender typologies and paraphilic disorders and to understand the ways that classifications, typologies, and diagnoses of mental disorder inform treatment paradigms. It examines the similarities and differences in the offense typologies of child molesters who are adult males, female sex offenders, juvenile sex offenders, cyber-offenders and rapists who sexually assault adult victims. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interrogates offenders' interpretations of benign social cues as having sexual overtones and invitations and re-educates offenders in appropriate understandings of and expectations in socially acceptable behaviors. Relapse prevention (RP) is a cognitive behavioral model for the treatment of sex offenders that is based on a treatment strategy for substance abuse. The Good Lives Model (GLM) is based on identifying the need for human fulfillment 'in several domains of functioning'.
This chapter shows the different feminist perspectives on female sex offending and how 'doing gender' may inform these understandings. It assesses the historical and contemporary trends in sex-offender treatment. The chapter identifies the sex-offender typologies and paraphilic disorders and to understand the ways that classifications, typologies, and diagnoses of mental disorder inform treatment paradigms. It examines the similarities and differences in the offense typologies of child molesters who are adult males, female sex offenders, juvenile sex offenders, cyber-offenders and rapists who sexually assault adult victims. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interrogates offenders' interpretations of benign social cues as having sexual overtones and invitations and re-educates offenders in appropriate understandings of and expectations in socially acceptable behaviors. Relapse prevention (RP) is a cognitive behavioral model for the treatment of sex offenders that is based on a treatment strategy for substance abuse. The Good Lives Model (GLM) is based on identifying the need for human fulfillment 'in several domains of functioning'.