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A 5 page overview of the various explanation of sex offending. This paper explores environmental factors, genetic factors, and psychological abnormalities to conclude that there is little true evidence to accept such excuses. Instead, there is a growing outcry to hold individuals responsible for those actions rather than to make excuses for those actions. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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becoming more and more of a predominant component of our society. This is particularly true of sex crimes. Numerous attempts have been made to explain why sex offenders
victimize. These attempts can be found in the criminological, psychological, and even the biological literature. Acceptance of the various theories explaining sex crimes varied quite dramatically, however.
Feminist, in particular, have definitive views on the validity of these attempts at explanation. The purpose of this paper is to explore the criminological explanations of sex offense, to
explore cognitive behavioral theory, biological theory and psychological theory and to review the feminist critique which revolves around each. While we most often
associate sexual violence as acts committed against women by an unknown perpetrator in a dark alley, there are many diverse faces of this phenomena. Six out of ten murders
of women were perpetrated by someone the woman knew, fifty percent of these were by a spouse or another individual with whom the woman had been intimate (Smolowe, 1994).
In many of these cases a woman is not only murdered but sexually molested as well. Women arent the only victims of sex crimes, however. Sexual violence often
targets children as well (Nester, 1998). The issues surrounding child abuse alone can be almost overwhelming. In 1995 an estimated 11% of all child abuse cases were attributed
to sexual abuse (Nester, 1998). This percentage accompanies the 54% of cases associated solely with physical neglect, 25% to physical abuse, and 3% to emotional abuse or neglect (Nester,
1998). The remaining 6% of child abuse cases reported in 1995 are attributed to a combination of types of abuse (sexual abuse included) (Nester, 1998). Interestingly, the relative
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