Female Sexual

According to McLeod (2015), in the United States criminal justice system, female sexual offenders are among the most underrepresented groups of individuals. As a forensic professional, you may be called upon to assess the risk and progress of a female sexual offender and make recommendations based on your assessments. Certain types of offenders, such as female sexual offenders, may exhibit behaviors, such as mutilating their victim and other sadistic acts to stimulate sexual excitement. Such behaviors may instigate cultural biases in you that may be challenging to overcome to assure impartiality in their assessment(s) and reporting.

For this Discussion, you will examine a case study about a female sexual offender, including the assessments used to determine her risk and progress, personality disorder assessment, and recommendations for further treatment and/or progression. Additionally, you will consider multicultural guidelines applicable to a forensic professional and analyze your own ability to be impartial considering the guidelines.

Given that the solicitor requested an assessment of risk and progress, as well as a personality disorder assessment, and recommendations for further treatment and/or progression, please explain why the following assessments were used:

Paulhus Deception Scale (PDS)

Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS-11)

International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE)

Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-IV (MCMI-IV

Historical-Clinical-Risk management – Version 3 (HCR-20v3)

Explain if the chosen assessment instruments were appropriate for female sexual offenders.

Indicate if there are any female-specific factors outlined for each assessment instrument and provide evidence to support your claim.

Please choose two guidelines from the APA “Multicultural Guidelines: An Ecological Approach to Context, Identity, and Intersectionality, 2017” that may be challenging for you when assessing female sexual offenders and explain your biases and how you would overcome them