Trauma, especially physical and sexual abuse inflicted by others, is often part of the personal histories of female prison inmates. These traumatic events have also been associated with neuropsychiatric conditions commonly found in female inmate populations. The purpose of this article is to provide a review of the literature and research findings about physical and sexual abuse perpetrated aga...

OBJECTIVE While psychopathology is common in criminal populations, knowing more about what kinds of psychiatric disorders precede criminal behavior could be helpful in delineating at-risk children. The authors determined rates of juvenile psychiatric disorders in a sample of young adult offenders and then tested which childhood disorders best predicted young adult criminal status. METHOD A re...

This article discusses the role that gender and age play in female crime delinquency Portugal, drawing on voices of offenders across different generations—childhood, youth, adulthood. Based analysis 49 interviews with offenders, it explores ways which these girls women construct account for their own criminal behavior. The results reveal a kaleidoscope changes cutting generational groups, punct...

Despite the importance of studying sexual assaults perpetrated by women, the field knows very little about female sexual offenders' (FSOs) use of violence or physical injury resulting from these assaults. This study draws more than 20 years of National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data reported to police (1992-2014) to identify factors that distinguish between female perpetrated inci...

Abstract Danish studies of intimate partner violence ( ipv ) using police data are scarce, in part because access to records had been limited. The present study reduces critical gaps the scholarly literature by examining offending patterns Denmark, nearly 10,000 incidents reported North Zealand Police, Denmark (2015–2019). We explore a common framework for analysing , observing (a) frequency, (...

People who have served prison time experience a higher unemployment rate than other social groups. Australian law stipulates individuals must not face employment discrimination on the basis of criminal record if unrelated to job’s inherent requirements, but remains significant. Female ex-offenders are particularly vulnerable stigma and discrimination. Nicki’s (pseudonym) account airs injustices...

The Offenders Index is a rich data source which consists of criminal conviction information collected from the courts. While it has been used to identify, for example, the proportions of particular birth years which have had a criminal conviction, there has been little interest in how the types of offences which offenders are convicted change over time. In this talk, we describe the problem of ...