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This section concerns how responses to sex offenders are shaped within some academic disciplines. Some approaches consider both the offender and the crime/offending. Theological and biomedical perspectives contain an overview of the nature of the offences and a response to the individual offender, which was briefly explored in the previous section. Sociological theory does not propose responses to the individual offender, but locates individual offenders, inextricably, within their social context (Messerschmidt, 1993, 2012). This section is primarily concerned with psychological understandings of individual sex offenders; while the bulk of the literature considers adult male sex offenders, we also consider female and young sex offenders.