Cortoni Franca, Sandler Jeffrey C, Freeman Naomi J
Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
New York State Office of Mental Health, Albany, NY, USA.
Sex Abuse. 2015 Jun;27(3):324-34. doi: 10.1177/1079063214554959. Epub 2014 Oct 20.
Some jurisdictions have legally decreed that certain nonsexual offenses (e.g., promoting prostitution of a minor, arson, burglary) can be considered sexual offenses. Offenders convicted of these crimes can be subjected to sexual offender-specific social control policies such as registration, as well as be included in sexual offender research such as recidivism studies. No studies, however, have systematically examined differences and similarities between this new class of sexual offenders and more traditional sexual offenders. The current study used a sample of 94 women convicted of sexual offenses to investigate whether women convicted of promoting prostitution of a minor differed on demographic and criminogenic features from those convicted of more traditional sexual offenses. Results show that women convicted of promoting prostitution offenses have criminal histories more consistent with general criminality and exhibit more general antisocial features than women convicted of traditional sexual offenses. These results support the notion that the inclusion of legally defined sexual offenders with traditional ones obscures important differences in criminogenic features among these women.
一些司法管辖区已依法裁定，某些非性犯罪（例如，促成未成年人卖淫、纵火、入室盗窃）可被视为性犯罪。因这些罪行被定罪的罪犯可能会受到针对性犯罪者的社会控制政策，如登记，并且会被纳入性犯罪者研究，如累犯研究。然而，尚无研究系统地考察这类新的性犯罪者与更传统的性犯罪者之间的异同。本研究以94名被判定犯有性犯罪的女性为样本，调查因促成未成年人卖淫而被定罪的女性在人口统计学和犯罪成因特征方面是否与因更传统性犯罪被定罪的女性存在差异。结果表明，与因传统性犯罪被定罪的女性相比，因促成卖淫罪被定罪的女性犯罪历史与一般犯罪行为更为一致，且表现出更多的一般反社会特征。这些结果支持了这样一种观点，即将法律定义的性犯罪者与传统性犯罪者归为一类，掩盖了这些女性在犯罪成因特征上的重要差异。
