This exploratory study examined the risk and protective factors of youth offenders and their relation to recidivism. The sample consisted of 76 male and female juvenile probationers within a large metropolitan area. Archival records on probationers provided data on prior offenses, personal characteristics, familial conditions, drug use, peer selection, school performance, role models, and activ...

The relationship between substance abuse and female criminal offending has been understudied. To aid in clarification of this relation, substance use histories of female offender subtypes were compared. Participants were 152 female prison inmates subgrouped on the basis of offense category: violent (n = 79), property (n = 39), and drug (n = 34). As hypothesized, substance use histories differed...

Public opinion about neonaticide (the killing of a newborn within the first 24 hours of life) has varied across time and cultures. Some nations have passed legislation on behalf of maternal offenders with the assumption that childbirth, a time of unique biological change, may lead to mental disturbance. The United States, however, makes no such distinction; offenders are prosecuted under genera...

While males continue to comprise the majority of criminal offenders, the number of female offenders involved in the criminal justice system continues to grow at a much faster rate (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2007). Rapidly rising numbers draw attention to the treatment programs available to this unique population. More specifically, interest is growing in the recently developed gender-respon...

T article briefly summarizes a series of studies that e x p l o red issues related to the reliability (internal consistency and test-retest reliability) and criterion validity of phallometric testing with sexual offenders (incest offenders, extrafamilial child molesters, and rapists) against female victims. Three assessment sets w e re evaluated: (1) An Age-Gender set which pre s e n t e d slid...

Although considerable efforts have been made to develop and validate etiological models of male sexual offending, no theory is available to guide research or practice with female sexual offenders (FSOs). In this study, the authors developed a descriptive, offense process model of female sexual offending. Systematic qualitative analyses (i.e., grounded theory) of 22 FSOs' offense interviews were...

The reliability and validity of the Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL–R) was examined in a sample of 528 nonpsychotic female offenders participating in a study assessing the generalizability of the instrument to females using personality, attitudinal, and laboratory behavioral measures. Results showed good interrater reliability and adequate internal consistency. Correlations with a number of ...

BACKGROUND The objective of the study was to estimate the rate of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in male and female offenders newly committed to the Iowa Department of Corrections. We also compared clinical and demographic characteristics of offenders with and without BPD. METHODS A random sample of 220 offenders entering Iowa's prison system were evaluated by using a version of the Mi...

This quasi-experimental study analyzed the recidivism outcomes of 1,125 sexual offenders in two groups. The first group comprised 644 registered sex offenders who were convicted of a sex crime and at some point failed to register after release from prison. The comparison group contained 481 registered sex offenders released from prison during a similar time frame who did not fail to register af...

Recently. female offenders have drawn attention from criminologists owing to the rapid rise in the rate of crime committed by women compared to men and to their increasingly active role in the crimes. l Widom (\978) has critically reviewed various etiological considerations such as biological as well as environmental stress hypotheses to explain female criminality. One aspect of the environment...