Question 1: What question does this research attempt to answer?
This study explores and answers whether there are particular motives, offence, offender, victim and criminal career characteristics to juvenile female sexual offenders, as well as answering whether there is heterogeneity in juvenile female sexual offenders
Question 2: What method did the authors use to answer the question?
The authors started with 143 cases that were recorded over a five year period from 1993 with the Netherlands central prosecution service, focusing on juvenile female perpetrators that have committed at least one sexual offence. After narrowing down to 66 functional cases, the offender, offence and court file variables were coded using a scoring tool for sex
This study explores and answers whether there are particular motives, offence, offender, victim and criminal career characteristics to juvenile female sexual offenders, as well as answering whether there is heterogeneity in juvenile female sexual offenders
Question 2: What method did the authors use to answer the question?
The authors started with 143 cases that were recorded over a five year period from 1993 with the Netherlands central prosecution service, focusing on juvenile female perpetrators that have committed at least one sexual offence. After narrowing down to 66 functional cases, the offender, offence and court file variables were coded using a scoring tool for sex