Julia Hislop
Female Sex Offenders:
What Therapists, Law Enforcement and
Child Protective Services Need to Know
Female sex offenders have molested an estimated two to three million victims in the United States, the vast majority of which never report the crime. With the ongoing cases of teachers molesting students, it is an issue that the general public is just beginning to notice.
As a society we find it nearly impossible to believe that females, usually seen as nurturing, are capable of sexual abuse. The result is that, each year, hundreds of thousands of youth are not protected, not believed and not treated for the trauma associated with the abuse.
Hislop, in addition to her own research, has spent years researching what has been written on the subject and compiling it in her book. The first chapter includes a description of the events that may cause a woman to become a sex offender. Knowing the power of the destructive forces that shape the offenders will allow the reader to break through their belief that women can’t harm children.
The rest of the book contains a detailed analysis of the currently available literature and her own research. Dr. Julia Hislop describes what is known about female sex offenders: identification of abusers, estimates of the number of abusers and victims, the methods of abuse, the types of trauma seen among their victims and what is known about the developmental histories of female sex offenders. She also provides therapists with directions for treatment and prioritized treatment goals, including exploring the victimization and patterns of offending, the relationship between the offender’s own victimization and her offending, precursors to offending and methods to stop offending. Dr. Hislop hopes the book “will assist those who are devoted to the protection of children, and will be used to assist in the identification and treatment of female sex offenders and their victims.”
One set of questions that are often asked is If There Is No Erection, How Can It Be Sex? If There Is An Erection, How Can It Be Abuse? Click on the link for a paper Dr. Hislop presented at the 3rd East-West Conference on Child Sexual Abuse Sexual Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Prague, Czech Republic, September 15 -18, 2002
For more information on her seminar click here. For information on her book click here.
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Dr. Julia Hislop
has worked with physically and sexually abused children and adults, as well as child
abusers and sex offenders, in a variety of settings. She received her Ph.D. from the
California School of Professional Psychology and currently works as a psychologist for
Clinical Associates of Tidewater in Her previous publication in the field of sexual abuse, Female Sex Abusers: Three Views, was a collaborative effort with other researches, available through the Safer Society Press. She also wrote Coping with Rejection for adolescents which was listed among the best books for teenagers by the New York Pubic Library. |
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