Potential Effects of Bias toward Female Sex Offenders
| Lack of recognition of perpetrators leading to continued perpetration against victims |
| Lack of understanding and appropriate treatment for victims; victim blaming |
| Lack of understanding of the significance of harm to victims |
| Victims are not taken seriously, or it is suggested that they consented |
| Betrayal of a child by an authority figure |
| Lack of arrest and prosecution of perpetrators |
| Lack of guilty findings; inappropriate findings of insanity and mental health dispositions for female sexual offenders |
| Lack of recognition of recidivism |
| Dearth of research about effective treatment of offenders |