Volume
43, No. 3
July 2001
Editorial
Julian Roberts
A
culture of denial: Exploring professional perspectives on female sex
offending
Myriam S. Denov
Population
aging and crime in Canada, 2000-2041
Peter J. Carrington
L'estimation
du niveau de concordance de trois modèles classificatoires
d'agresseurs sexuels d'enfants: problèmes pratiques et implications
théoriques
Jean-Pierre Guay, Jean Proulx, et Marc Ouimet
Commentary
Mandatory minimum sentences: A utilitarian perspective
Thomas Gabor
Research
Note
An analysis of public support for special consideration of aboriginal
offenders at sentencing
Rachel Dioso and Anthomy N. Doob
Book
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ROBERTS: Criminal Justice in Canada: A Reader
Martin Courcy
PROULX,
CUSSON et OUIMET: Les violences criminelles
Tony Brien et Bruno Pellerin
RAFTER:
Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society
Robert Menzies
SMITH
and ZHAN: Homicide, A Sourcebook of Social Research. SMITH and ZHAN:
Studying and Preventing Homicide
Maurice Cusson
Memo
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A
CULTURE OF DENIAL: EXPLORING PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON FEMALE SEX
OFFENDING
Myriam S. Denov
Department of Criminology
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
Although
child sexual abuse has been studied extensively, minimal attention
has been paid to sexual abuse by females. In particular, there is
a dearth of research dedicated to exploring professional perspectives
on female sex offending. Filling the critical gaps in the empirical
literature, this exploratory study traces the ways in which a sample
of Canadian police officers, and psychiatrists understood, and portrayed
sexual abuse by female perpetrators. The data from this study were
derived from semi-structured interviews with police officers and psychiatrists,
and, in the case of police officers, direct observation, and an analysis
of police reports. The study reveals how the denial of women as potential
sexual aggressors is integral to understanding professional accounts
and constructions of female sex offending. For these professionals,
the gender of the offender appears central to the meaning of the sexual
offence and thus cannot be conceptualized without its gendered context.
As female sex offending challenges traditional sexual scripts concerning
‘appropriate' female behaviour, it appears that efforts are made,
either consciously or unconsciously, to transform the offender and
her offence, realigning them with more culturally acceptable notions
of female behaviour, ultimately leading to the denial of the problem.
POPULATION
AGING AND CRIME IN CANADA, 2000 - 2041
Peter J. Carrington
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Levels
of crime in Canada are forecast for 2000 to 2041. The forecasts are
based on current age- specific crime and criminal victimization rates,
population age structure projections to 2041, and the assumption that
age-specific crime rates will not change in the future. All types
of crime are forecast to decline, due to the continuing aging of the
Canadian population. The overall recorded crime rate is forecast to
fall to 85 percent of its 1999 level by 2026 and to 81 percent by
2041. The risk of criminal victimization is forecast to follow a very
similar trajectory. Recorded rates of crimes that are characteristic
of teenagers and young adults such as robbery and break and enter,
should fall slightly faster and farther; whereas crimes that are more
characteristic of older adults, such as sexual assault and drinking-driving,
should be affected less by the aging of the population. These results
are not predictions, but only estimates of changes that can be expected
to occur as the result of demographic change alone.
L'ESTIMATION
DU NIVEAU DE CONCORDANCE DE TROIS MODÈLES CLASSIFICATOIRES
D'AGRESSEURS SEXUELS D'ENFANTS: PROBLÈMES PRATIQUES ET IMPLICATIONS
THÉORIQUES
Jean-Pierre Guay
and
Jean Proulx
École de criminologie,
Centre international de criminologie comparée
Université de Montréal
and
Institut Philippe-Pinel
Montréal, Québec
and
Marc Ouimet
École de criminologie
Centre international de criminologie comparée
Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The object
of this study was to check the level of agreement between the categories
described by three classification models of child sexual abusers:
the one created by Gebhard and his colleagues, the one established
by Groth and his colleagues, and the one produced by Knight and Prentky.
The results show there is substantial concordance amongst these three
models which has permitted identification of four principal types
of child sexual abusers: the homosexual violent pedophile, and the
incestuous pedophile. Each type is described on the basis of the principal
published studies on classification. The practical and theoretical
implications of these analyses are discussed.
