ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the sexual offense and conviction are understood by the female partners and how life changes when family and friends find out about the woman’s involvement with an RSO. Understanding the offense involves an examination of the theoretical principals of techniques of neutralization. The four types of techniques of neutralization used by women to justify their partner’s behavior were: denial of responsibility; denial of injury; justification by comparison; and condemnation of the condemners. The chapter also explores responses to the female partner by family members and friends when it is discovered that she is associated with a registered sex offender.
