The Impact of Sanctions on Child and Female Offenders

2016 ◽  
pp. 173-202
Author(s):  
Charles Robert Allen
Keyword(s):  
Female Offenders ◽  
The Impact

Violent women: treatment approaches and psychodynamic considerations

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette McKeown ◽  
Ellen Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Effectiveness ◽  
Female Offenders ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Staff Retention ◽  
Treatment Approaches ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Client Group ◽  
Female Violence ◽  
Assessment And Treatment ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Some psychodynamic approaches conceptualise female violence as a communication of experiences too difficult to think about. As practitioners, understanding what may be too painful to be thought about is incredibly important in assessment and treatment of forensic populations. Incorporating psychodynamic concepts such as splitting, transference, projection and counter-transference into formulation can be extremely helpful in understanding and formulating women’s risk of violence. The purpose of this paper is to introduce how psychodynamic concepts can be incorporated into understanding, assessment, formulation and treatment with this complex client group. This paper will also outline treatment approaches with this population. Design/methodology/approach This paper will review existing psychodynamic literature and apply this knowledge to working with violent female offenders. Translating theory into reflective practice will be presented. Findings This paper presents the value of incorporating psychodynamic considerations into existing strategies of understanding and working with violent female offenders. Ways forwards and research directions are proposed. Research limitations/implications This paper is focussed primarily on psychodynamic approaches to understanding this population Practical implications Psychodynamic concepts can add an additional dimension to formulation, supervision and treatment approaches with this population. Examining the meaning of violence perpetrated by women as well as enactments can improve practitioner’s depth of understanding. Empirical research examining the benefits of psychoanalytic supervision would be extremely useful to explore the impact on formulation, treatment approaches, treatment effectiveness, staff well-being and staff retention. Originality/value There is a lack of literature considering the application of psychodynamic constructs to help formulation of complex female offenders in the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway for women.

scholarly journals Are the Effects of Poverty and Victimization on Criminal Recidivism Mediated by Depression as Predicted by General Strain Theory? A Longitudinal Study of Provincially Sentenced Women

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Newman
Keyword(s):  
General Strain Theory ◽  
Female Offenders ◽  
Strain Theory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Criminal Recidivism ◽  
General Strain ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Provincially Sentenced

The current study is a longitudinal analysis of psychosocial factors contributing to re-offending among 125 adult female offenders. Drawing on General Strain Theory (GST), the study examined the role of victimization and poverty on criminal recidivism and investigated whether this relationship was mediated by depression. Regression, survival, and mediational analyses were employed to examine the impact of these variables on criminal recidivism. Findings revealed that using illegal means to make ends meet, and having survived childhood sexual abuse, were particularly important predictors of recidivism for women in the study sample, although depression was not found to significantly mediate the relationship between strain and recidivism. Implications for future research on female recidivism and helping women to stay crime-free are discussed.

Assessing the Impact of Statutory Change: A Statewide Multilevel Analysis of Restitution Orders in Pennsylvania

2005 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Barry Ruback ◽  
Gretchen R. Ruth ◽  
Jennifer N. Shaffer
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Analysis ◽  
Female Offenders ◽  
Multilevel Analyses ◽  
Policy Goal ◽  
Prior Record ◽  
White Offenders ◽  
Change Period ◽  
The Impact

This research analyzed decisions in 170,260 restitution-eligible cases in Pennsylvania from 1990 to 1998 to infer the policies underlying the imposition of restitution when it was discretionary and to assess whether a 1995 statutory change making restitution mandatory changed those policies. Multilevel analyses of restitution decisions from the 1990-1994prestatutory change period suggested that judges considered restitution to be both a victim-focused sanction, in that restitution was ordered more for offenders who committed more serious crimes and for property offenders (whose crimes could be more easily quantified), and an offender-focused sanction, in that restitution was ordered more for offenders who pleaded guilty, offenders with no prior record, White offenders, and female offenders. The statutory change increased the proportion of restitution orders statewide from 1996 to 1998. Moreover, it appeared to meet the policy goal of greater focus on victims.

Using structural equation modeling to assess the impact of factors on sexual risk and delinquent behavior in Dutch female offenders

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 233-240
Author(s):  
J.E. van Horn ◽  
M. Reinders ◽  
M.J. Eisenberg ◽  
A. de Lima-Heijns ◽  
J. Posthumus
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Female Offenders ◽  
Delinquent Behavior ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
The Impact

A study of the impact of child and adolescent abuse on personality disorders in adult women

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S587-S587
Author(s):  
M. Kachaeva ◽  
S. Shport ◽  
E. Nuckova ◽  
D. Afzaletdinova ◽  
L. Satianova
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
Previous History ◽  
Female Offenders ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Child Psychiatric ◽  
The Impact

IntroductionResearches on female offenders have indicated a high degree of psychiatric morbidity amongst women. Since the rates of female criminality are rising it would appear important to conduct the study of the relationship between criminal behaviour and psychiatric diagnoses in female offenders.ObjectivesThe main purpose of this investigation is to find out origins of crimes in women and to reveal the influence of child and adolescent maltreatment on personality disorders in adult women.MethodsClinical psychopathological, psychological, statistical.ResultsA cohort of 24 females with diagnosis of personality disorders was examined. All of them had committed crimes of violence. In the majority of the sample women had a previous history of psychiatric admissions (child psychiatric hospitals, adolescent units). The retrospective review revealed that the majority of women in their childhood were exposed to emotional, physical and sexual abuse in their families. Our results point that maltreatment may distort personality formation and social adjustment and contribute to behavior problems, negative relation to socialization and criminal behavior in adulthood.ConclusionThe study revealed that psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence are predictive of adult criminality in females. This findings may be used as prognostic indicators of development of aggression in female forensic patients.The study is supported by the Russian Fund of Fundamental Investigations 6-06-00314Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

What’s the Story? The Impact of Race/Ethnicity on Crime Story Tone for Female Offenders

2012 ◽  
pp. 47-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abby L. Vandenberg ◽  
Pauline K. Brennan ◽  
Meda Chesney-Lind
Keyword(s):  
Female Offenders ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The Impact

The impact of light skin on prison time for black female offenders

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 250-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Viglione ◽  
Lance Hannon ◽  
Robert DeFina
Keyword(s):  
Female Offenders ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Light Skin ◽  
The Impact

T159. The Impact of Maternal and Paternal Incarceration on Impulsive and Psychopathic Traits in Female Offenders

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (10) ◽  
pp. S190-S191
Author(s):  
Nicholas Thomson ◽  
Michel Aboutanos ◽  
Jasmin Vassileva
Keyword(s):  
Female Offenders ◽  
Psychopathic Traits ◽  
Paternal Incarceration ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Relations Among Victimization, Witnessing, and Perpetration of Aggression: Impact of Gender Among Youth Offenders

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (10) ◽  
pp. 2158-2180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie S. Tisak ◽  
John Tisak ◽  
Erin R. Baker ◽  
Scott A. Graupensperger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Female Offenders ◽  
Social Aggression ◽  
Youth Offenders ◽  
Midwest United States ◽  
Aggravated Assault ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Simple Assault

The participants included 251 (158 males; 93 females) youth offenders who were arrested and incarcerated in a juvenile facility in the Midwest United States. The aims were to assess (a) how often they were a victim, a witness, and/or a perpetrator of social aggression, simple assault, and aggravated assault during the past year; (b) to examine whether exposure (either witness or victim or both) predicted committing three types of aggressive behaviors; and (c) to assess the impact of gender among the youth offenders. Differential predictability models were utilized to assess gender differences. The findings revealed that gender was an important predictor. For example, females reported higher rates of being a witness, a victim, and a perpetrator of social aggression than did males. Moreover, female offenders committed simple assault more often than males and males committed aggravated assault more often than females. The general results suggest that it is important to examine the various forms of aggression, and exposure, as well as how gender affects these relationships.

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