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CRJS 495: Sex Crimes Report a Broken Link

Unit 1: From Sexual Deviance to Sex Crimes

Government of Canada (2023). Age of consent to sexual activity.
Beres, M. A. (2007). “Spontaneous” sexual consent: An analysis of the sexual consent literature. Feminism & Psychology, 17(1), 93–108.
McKenna, J.  L., Roemer, L. & Orsillo, S. M. (2021). Predictors of sexual consent communication among sexual minority cisgender and nonbinary young adults during a penetrative sexual encounter with a new partner. Sexuality and Culture, 25, 1490–1508.

Unit 2: Theories of Sexual Offending

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. (2017). Adult Section, Chapter 2: Etiology of adult of sexual offending. Sex Offender Management Assessment and Planning Initiative, (pp. 37–60).

Unit 3: Sex Offender Typologies

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. (2017). Adult Section, Chapter 3: Sex offender typologies. Sex Offender Management Assessment and Planning Initiative, (pp. 61–90).

Unit 4: Internet Facilitated Sex Crimes

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. (2017). Adult Section, Chapter 4: Internet facilitated sexual offending. Sex Offender Management Assessment and Planning Initiative, (pp. 91–105).

Unit 5: Exhibitionism, Frotteurism, & Voyeurism

Langstrom, N. & Seto, M. C. (2006). Exhibitionistic and voyeuristic behavior in a Swedish national population survey. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 35(4), 427–435.
Clarke, S. K. et al. (2016). More than a nuisance: The prevalence and consequences of frotteurism and exhibitionism. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 28(1), 3–19.

Unit 6: Rape

Chopin, J., Paquette, S. & Beauregard, E. (2022). Is there an “expert” rapist? Sexual Abuse, 34(1), 78–105.
Millink, I. S. K., Jeglic, E. L. & Bogaard, G. (2022). Predicting rapist type based on crime scene violence, interpersonal involvement, and criminal sophistication in U.S. stranger rape cases. International Journal of Police Science and Management, 24(1), 53–65

Unit 7: Sexual Homicide

Chopin, J., & Beauregard, E. (2019). The sexual murderer is a distinct type of offender. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 63(9), 1597–1620.
Oligny, K-A et al. (2023). A new classification of sexual homicide offenders: When the heterogeneity of types allows the detection of potential serial offenders. Homicide Studies,27(1), 1–28.

Unit 8: Female Sexual Offenders

Almond, L. et al. (2017). Female sex offenders: An analysis of crime scene behaviors. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 32(24), 3839–3860.
Gewirtz-Meydan, A. et al. (2023). I know it’s hard to believe but the monster who abused me is my mother: Experiences of being sexually abused as a child by a female. Sexual Abuse, 35(8), 927–952.

Unit 9: Juvenile Sexual Offenders

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. (2017). Juvenile Section, Chapter 1: Unique considerations regarding juveniles who commit sexual offences. Sex Offender Management Assessment and Planning Initiative, (pp. 221–226).
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. (2017). Juvenile Section, Chapter 3: Recidivism of juveniles who commit sexual offences. Sex Offender Management Assessment and Planning Initiative, (pp. 227–249).

Unit 10: Sexual Offender Recidivism

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. (2017). Adult Section, Chapter 5: Adult sexual offender recidivism. Sex Offender Management Assessment and Planning Initiative, (pp. 107–131).
Lussier, P. et al. (2023). Sex offender recidivism: Some lessons learned from over 70 years of research. Criminal Justice Review, 49(4), 1-40.