NCJ Number
109789
Journal
British Journal of Psychiatry Volume: 150 Dated: (1987) Pages: 615-620
Date Published
1987
Length
6 pages
Annotation
Information on 19 women convicted of indecency and 62 women convicted of other sex offenses was examined.
Abstract
Those convicted of indecency offenses 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 offense in women. In 39 (63 percent) of the sex offenses with individual victims, the victims were children and in 9 cases the offender was the mother or stepmother. 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 percent had a previous history of psychiatric disorder. (Author abstract)