Author ORCID Identifier

Wright: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4653-3596

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2007

Publication Title

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

Volume

23

Issue

4

First Page

310

Last Page

340

Abstract

The needs of women offenders may be qualitatively different than the needs of male offenders. The “pathways” and “gender-responsive” perspectives of female offending have recently garnered attention in both practitioner and scholarly arenas. The pathways perspective focuses attention on the co-occurrence and effects of trauma, substance abuse, dysfunctional relationships, and mental illness on female offending, while the gender-responsive perspective also suggests that problems related to parenting, childcare, and self-concept issues are important needs of women offenders. Few studies have examined whether or not these are risk factors for poor prison adjustment. With a sample of 272 incarcerated women offenders in Missouri, we examine how each gender-responsive need is related to six- and twelve-month prison misconducts, and whether the inclusion of such needs to traditional static custody classification items increases the predictive validity of such tools. Results suggest that women offenders do, in fact, display gender-responsive risk factors in prison.

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Sage in [Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice] on [November 2007], available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/1043986207309595

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