Girls and Women Flashcards
Typical Incarcerated female
- Trauma as a child and adult
- internalizing mental health problems
- Don’t really get you in trouble
- Has criminogenic needs
Female criminal conduct
-boys and men commit more crime than girls and women
-That gap is pronounced when we look at serious and violent crime
-adolescence is the only time the gap is more narrow
what age is conduct disorder the highest?
18
Filicide
-killing ones own child
-when its a baby, usually the mother is the one that does it
Female-specific Theory
-arose from feminist critiques, and how “women are invisible”
-and gender difference hypothesis
Pathways Theory
-maladaptive coping strategies
-survivalist strategies (turning to things that are criminalized)
-inability to form and keep healthy relationships
Central 8
-History of antisocial behaviour
-antisocial personality pattern
-antisocial cognition
-antisocial associates
-family/marital
-school/work
-leisure/recreation
-substance use
In an average couple, are women or men more violent?
Women, in the average couple. No difference between men and women in violent couples
Adolescence-Limited Trajectory
not very high, and limited to adults
Low-rate trajectory
Average conviction for the group is only half the conviction, they may have gotten another conviction at some point
Early onset fast desist
peaked in adolescence, but then dropped off more slowly than the adolescence limited, still went on to desist and stop offending after a while
Early onset slow resistance
ended up continuing their offending ways into adulthood but at a lower rate, worst in adolescence
High-rate persistence
engaging in a lot of crime in adolescence, but continuing at a high rate. Most serious in adulthood, but not worst in adolescent
Why is LCP more common in women?
- less impulsivity
- girls neurophysiological mechanisms develop into non-antisocial patters
-girls have more cost for persisting in criminal behaviour
