Additional Resources about Special Populations

Developmentally Disabled Sex Offenders

Blasingame, G. (2005). Developmentally disabled persons with sexual behavior problems: Treatment, management, and supervision (2nd ed.). Oklahoma City, OK: Wood & Barnes Publishing.
Haaven, J. L. & Coleman, E. M. (2000). Treatment of the developmentally disabled sex offender. In D.R. Laws, S.M. Hudson, and T. Ward (Eds.), Remaking relapse prevention with sex offenders: A sourcebook (pp. 273–285). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Haaven, J., Little, R., & Petre–Miller, D. (1990). Treating Intellectually Disabled Sex Offenders: A Model Residential Program. Brandon, VT: Safer Society Press.
Lindsay, W. R. (2002). Research and literature on sex offenders with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 46, 74–85.
Stermac, L. and Sheridan, P. (1993). The developmentally disabled adolescent sex offender. In H.E. Barbaree, W.L. Marshall, and S.M. Hudson (Eds.). The juvenile sex offender (pp. 235–242). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Taiping, Ho. (1997). Mentally retarded sex offenders. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 13, 251–263.
Wilcox, D. (2004). Treatment of intellectually disabled individuals who have committed sexual offenses: A review of the literature. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 10, 85–100.

Female Sex Offenders

Becker, J., Hall, S., & Stinson, J. (2001). Female sexual offenders: Clinical, legal and policy issues. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 1, 29–50.
Bumby, K. M., & Bumby, N. H., Schwartz, B. K., and Cellini, H.R. (1997). Adolescent female sexual offenders. In The sex offender: new insights, treatment innovations and legal developments (pp. 10.1–10.16). Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute.
Bumby, N. H., & Bumby, K. M. (2004). Bridging the gender gap: Addressing juvenile females who commit sexual offences. In G. O’Reilly, W.L. Marshall, A. Carr, & R. C. Beckett (Eds.), The handbook of clinical intervention with young people who sexually abuse (pp. 369–381). New York, NY: Brunner–Routledge.
Center for Sex Offender Management (2007). Female sex offenders. Silver Spring, MD: Author.
Cortoni, F. & Hanson, R. K. (2005). A review of recidivism rates of adult female sexual offenders. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada.
Denov, M. (2004). Perspectives on female sex offending: A culture of denial. Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing.
Denov, M., & Cortoni, F. (2006). Women who sexually abuse children. In C. Hilarski & J.S. Wodarski (Eds.), Comprehensive mental health practice with sex offenders and their families (pp. 71–99). Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press.
Eldridge, H., & Saradjian, J. (2000). Replacing the function of abusive behaviors for the offender: Remaking relapse prevention in working with women who sexually abuse children. In D. R. Laws, S. M. Hudson, & T. Ward (Eds.), Remaking relapse prevention with sex offenders: A sourcebook (pp. 402–426). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Elliot, M. (1993). Female sexual abuse of children. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Finkelhor, D. & Russell, D. (1984). Women as perpetrators: Review of the evidence. In D. Finkelhor (Ed.), Child Sexual Abuse: New Theory and Research (pp. 171–187). New York, NY: Free Press.
Frey, L.L. (2006). Girls don’t do that, do they? Adolescent females who sexually abuse. In R. E. Longo & D. S. Prescott (Eds.), Current perspectives: Working with sexually aggressive youth and youth with sexual behavior problems (pp. 255–272). Holyoke, MA: NEARI Press.
Grayston, A. D., & De Luca, R. V. (1999). Female perpetrators of child sexual abuse: A review of the clinical and empirical literature. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 4, 93–106.
Hislop, J. (2001). Female sex offenders: What therapists, law enforcement and child protective services need to know. Ravensdale, WA: Issues Press/Idyll Arbor.
Hunter, J. A., Becker, J. V., & Lexier, L. J. (2006). The female juvenile sex offender. In H. E. Barbaree & W. L. Marshall (Eds.), The juvenile sex offender (2nd ed.) (pp. 148–165). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Johansson–Love, J., & Fremouw, W. (2006). A critique of the female sexual perpetrator research. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 11, 12–26.
Kaplan, M. S. & Green, A. (1995). Incarcerated female sexual offenders: A comparison of sexual histories with eleven female nonsexual offenders. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 7, 287–300.
Kubik, E., Hecker, J., & Righthand, S. (2002). Adolescent females who have sexually offended: Comparisons with delinquent adolescent female offenders and adolescent males who sexually offend. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 11, 63–83.
Lewis, C. F. & Stanley, C. R. (2002). Women accused of sexual offenses. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 18, 73–81.
Mathews, R., Hunter, J. A., & Vuz, J. (1997). Juvenile female sexual offenders: Clinical characteristics and treatment issues. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 9, 187–199.
Mathews, R., Mathews, J. K., & Speltz, K. (1989). Female sexual offenders: An exploratory study. Brandon, VT: Safer Society Press.
Matthews, J. (1998). An 11–year perspective of working with female sexual offenders. In W. L. Marshall, T. Ward, & S. M. Hudson (Eds.), Sourcebook of treatment programs for sexual offenders (pp. 259–272). New York, NY: Plenum Press.
Nathan, P., & Ward, T. (2001). Females who sexually abuse children: Assessment and treatment issues. Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law, 8, 44–55.
Nathan, P., & Ward, T. (2002). Female sex offenders: Clinical and demographic features. The Journal of Sexual Aggression, 8, 5–21.
Robinson, S. (2006). Adolescent females with sexual behavioral problems: What constitutes best practice? In R. E. Longo & D. S. Prescott (Eds.), Current perspectives: Working with sexually aggressive youth and youth with sexual behavior problems (pp. 273–324). Holyoke, MA: NEARI Press.
Rosencrans, B. (1997). The last secret: daughters sexually abused by mothers. Brandon, VT: Safer Society Press.
Sandler, J. C., & Freeman, N. J. (2007). Typology of female sex offenders: A test of Vandiver and Kercher. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 19, 73–89.
Turner, M. T., & Turner, T. N. (1994). Female adolescent sexual abusers: An exploratory study of mother–daughter dynamics with Implications for treatment. Brandon, VT: Safer Society Press.
Vandiver, D. (2006). Female sex offenders: A comparison of solo offenders and co–offenders. Violence and Victims, 21, 339–354.
Vandiver, D., & Kercher, G. (2004). Offender and victim characteristics of registered female sexual offenders in Texas: A proposed typology of female sexual offenders. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 16, 121–137.
Vandiver, D. M., & Teske, R. T. (2006). Juvenile female and male sex offenders. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 50, 148–165.
Vandiver, D. M., & Walker, J. T. (2002). Female sex offenders: An overview and analysis of 40 cases. Criminal Justice Review, 27, 284–300.

Children with Sexual Behavior Problems

Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) (2006). Report of the Task Force on Children with Sexual Behavior Problems. Beaverton, OR: Author.
Calder, M. C. (Ed.). (2005). Children and young people who sexually abuse: New theory, research and practice developments. Dorset, England: Russell House Publishing.
Cavanagh Jonhson, T, & Doonan, R. (2006). Children twelve and younger with sexual behavior problems: What we know in 2005 that we didn’t know in 1985. In R. E. Longo & D. S. Prescott (Eds.), Current perspectives: Working with sexually aggressive and youth with sexual behavior problems (pp. 79–118). Holyoke, MA: NEARI Press.
Chaffin, M., Letourneau, E., & Silovsky, J. F. (2002). Adults, adolescents, and children who sexually abuse children: A developmental perspective. In J. E. B. Myers, L. Berliner, J. Briere, C. T. Hendrix, C. Jenny, & T. A. Reid (Eds.), The APSAC handbook on child maltreatment (2nd ed.) (pp. 205–232). Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.
Friedrich, W. (2007). Children with sexual behavior problems: Family–based, attachment–focused treatment. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company, Ltd.
Friedrich, W. N., Davies, W., Fehrer, E., & Wright, J. (2003). Sexual behavior problems in preteen children: Developmental, ecological, and behavioral correlates. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 989, 95–104.
Gray, A., Busconi, A., Houchens, P., & Pithers, W. (1997). Children with sexual behavior problems and their caregivers: Demographics, functioning, and clinical patterns. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 9, 267–290.
Johnson, T. C. (2007). Helping children with sexual behavior problems—A guidebook for parents and substitute caregivers (3rd ed.). South Pasadena, CA: Author.
Johnson, T. C. (2004). Understanding children’s sexual behaviors—What’s natural and healthy Updated. South Pasadena, CA: Author.
Longo, R. (2003). Emerging issues, policy changes, and the future of treatment of children with sexual behavior problems, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 989, 502–514.
Miranda, A. O., & Davis, K. (2002). Sexually abusive children—etiological and treatment considerations. In Schwartz, B. (Ed.), The sex offender, Vol. IV (pp. 18.1–18.13, Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute, Inc.
National Center on Sexual Behavior of Youth Web site: www.ncsby.org.
Pithers, W. D., Gray, A., Busconi, A., Houchens, P. (1998b). Caregivers of children with sexual behavior problems: Psychological and family functioning. Child Abuse and Neglect, 22, 129–141.
Silovsky, J., & Niec, L. (2002). Characteristics of young children with sexual behavior problems: A pilot study. Child Maltreatment, 7, 187–197.