Risk Factors for Criminal Recidivism in Female Offenders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacey R. Erickson
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Mannerfelt ◽  
Anders Håkansson

Background. This study aimed to map differences between male and female offenders with substance abuse, with respect to descriptive characteristics and risk factors for mortality and criminal recidivism. Methods. Criminal justice clients with substance abuse problems (n=7085) were interviewed with the Addiction Severity Index. Mortality and data on return to criminal justice were retrieved from national registers. Results. Female offenders reported heavier substance use patterns, more psychiatric symptoms, and more often a partner with substance abuse, but had lower mortality (2% versus 4%) and criminal recidivism (62% versus 71%) during follow-up. Having a substance-abusing partner was associated with criminal recidivism among females. Conclusions. Female offenders with substance abuse differ from their male counterparts. Males and females had different risk factors for criminal recidivism.


2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda B. Cottler ◽  
Catina C. O’Leary ◽  
Katelin B. Nickel ◽  
Jennifer M. Reingle ◽  
Daniel Isom

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-119
Author(s):  
V.G. Bulygina ◽  
A.A. Dubinsky ◽  
G.M. Tokareva ◽  
N.E. Lysenko

The results of research of the relationship between violence risk factors for and protective factors among psychiatric patients with a criminal history are presented. There were interviewed 563 men and 200 women undergoing compulsory treatment. The methodology of the assessment of protective factors (Bulygina V.G. et al.), "The historical clinical risk" (HCR-20, Webster), which was supplemented with a clinical-psychopathological criteria used in the Russian practice, were applied. It has been used the method of classification tree and ROC analysis. Target variables for the mathematical analysis were: gender, frequency of reoffending, interval of criminal recidivism. It was discovered that the universal protective factors in a general sample of persons with severe mental disorders are development of social and communication skills as well as higher motivation for treatment. There were highlighted gender specific protective factors. It is revealed that with a longer period of social adaptation associated the motivation for treatment and developed social and communication skills in female sample, in male – absence of problems connected with substance abuse and tolerant attitude to judicial and administrative regulations. Model of risk of the criminal recidivism among mentally ill women have higher predictive value than models for men.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Newman

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.


Sexual Abuse ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seena Fazel ◽  
Gabrielle Sjöstedt ◽  
Niklas LÅngström ◽  
Martin Grann

Author(s):  
Merrill Rotter ◽  
Virginia Barber-Rioja ◽  
Faith Schombs

Treatment of individuals with mental illness who have justice involvement has the same goals as the treatment of those without justice involvement: ameliorating symptoms, minimizing disability, maximizing community functioning, and supporting individualized recovery goals. The attainment of these goals are challenged, if not precluded, when a person is incarcerated, making the overrepresentation of individuals with mental illness all the more tragic, and decreasing criminal justice activity all the more important for both clinical success and public safety. Understanding and addressing the risk of criminal recidivism (i.e., re-arrest and return to jail for offenders with mental illness) is, therefore, a critical skill for the forensic clinician. In this chapter, we review risk factors for recidivism with specific focus on those relevant for offenders with mental illness, and present a holistic approach that incorporates both traditional treatment and recidivism-focused psychosocial interventions.


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