Educator Sexual Misconduct: An Examination of Sanction Disparities among Texas Female and Male Educators

While educator sexual misconduct (ESM) has garnered much attention in the media, there have only been a few empirical studies conducted on this topic. Information is limited because of a lack of standardized reporting policies and limited access to such data. Moreover, research on ESM has largely focused on male offenders, making it difficult to assess the sanction differences by sex. Therefore, sanction disparities between females and males who are accused of ESM are assessed in this research using data from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) database. It is hypothesized that female educators will have been given more lenient sanctions than male educators for having engaged in the same types of acts with students, whereby the findings of this research will show more support for the chivalry hypothesis than the evil women hypothesis. The results, however, indicate that there were no statistically significant differences between the sanctions of female and male educators accused of ESM.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Criminal Justice

Grantor

Texas State University

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Ali, Alvi

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Vandiver, Donna
• Hewitt, Ashley N.

Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember

• Brimbal, Laure

• educator sexual misconduct
• sex
• males
• females
• sanctions
• disparities

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10877/16087

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digital.library.txst.edu:10877/16087