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The teacher-lover – In early typologies of female sexual offenders, the predominant type was considered the teacher-lover. A female teacher who engaged in a sexual relationship with a student and believed she was “in love” was considered a teacher-lover.
The dark figure of crime – Unreported crimes that are not included in official crime statistics since they are unknown.
Violence Against Children: Teacher Perpetrators
In 2022, Freeform premiered a docuseries, Keep This Between Us (Berg, et al.), which chronicles the sexual grooming and abuse of high school students by male teachers. Other high-profile cases such as Mary Kay Letourneau and Pamela Smart shine a light on the presence of female perpetrators. The purpose of this entry is to review what is known about teacher perpetrators the dynamics of their offending.
Dynamics of Offenders and Offending
A pervasive myth is that only males are perpetrators. Though it is true that the majority of...
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Bryson, R., Bryson, J. (2023). Violence Against Children: Teacher Perpetrators. In: Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85493-5_247-1
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