Victims in a homicide case are most likely to be current or ex-partners, in both female and male perpetrators.
In a study of 17,337 survivors of childhood sexual abuse, 23% had a female-only perpetrator and 22% had both male and female perpetrators.
According to a 2011 CDC report there are an estimated 4,403,010 female victims of sexual violence that had a female only perpetrator.
Whereas in the earlier books male predators had dominated, with "Flowers and Insects" (1986) Hughes focused his attention on female perpetrators of mayhem.
The percentage of incidents of sexual abuse by female perpetrators that come to the attention of the legal system is usually reported to be between 1% and 4%.
Within Usenet it was found that 62.7 percent of the scenes had a male perpetrators and only 42.4 percent of the scenes contained female perpetrators.
On knife crime, 45 percent of suspected female perpetrators were black; for gun crime, 58 percent; and for robberies, 52 percent.
Male and female perpetrators of emotional and physical abuse exhibit high rates of personality disorders.
There are no similar statistics on female perpetrators of family violence due to bias in the data gathering procedure.
"She has access to the sable brushes, and the taser used in the snatch of the Dorignac's victim makes a female perpetrator possible."