At least one Australian expert says between 3% as likely as men to 25% as likely as men to offend. See below.
You can just look stuff up you know.
Joe Sullivan has spent 26 years counselling child sex offenders in the United Kingdom and is visiting Australia to attend an international police conference at Bond University on the Gold Coast.
While experts agree the majority of paedophiles are men, Dr Sullivan says women are responsible for more offences than previously thought.
“What I can say for certain is that it’s way more prevalent than people fully appreciate or understand,” he told the ABC.
"There’s some research to suggest it could be as high as 25 per cent.
“However, when you look at the representation within the criminal justice system it could be as low as 3 to 4 per cent of overall convictions.”
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Ok, I meant as in identical study but on women because that’s one of the basic questions one should be asking from a place of scientific curiosity. In general when a study like this is gendered even with fair reason it’s good to be curious about what would happen the other way.
Though fair enough I should’ve googled it
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
It happened the other way because the vast amount (97%) of convicted offenders are men, and that expert consensus is men are vastly more likely to offend. People have limited time and money, so research is funded when it is able to clearly state its impact.
I wish we had infinite resources in the academy, but we do not.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Sorry sometimes I get a little old fashioned and have scientific curiosity for its own sake. The academy indoctrinated me like that.