Making Sense of Heterogeneity in the Influence of Childhood Abuse, Mental Health, and Drug Use on Women's Offending Pathways
Making Sense of Heterogeneity in the Influence of Childhood Abuse, Mental Health, and Drug Use on Women's Offending Pathways
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DOI：
10.1177/0093854818776687
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发表时间：
2018-10-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Piquero, Alex R.
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作者：
Broidy, Lisa;Payne, Jason;Piquero, Alex R.
基于发展和生命历程文献以及女权主义路径文献，我们的目标是详细说明童年时期遭受虐待的时间和方式如何塑造女性的犯罪轨迹。我们利用澳大利亚 470 名女性犯罪者的数据进行分析，评估内化症状和吸毒是否有助于解释女性早期虐待和后期犯罪之间的联系。然后，我们检查这些联系是否对于早期发病并长期参与犯罪的女性最为严重。为了支持女权主义路径模型，我们找到了从早期虐待到内化症状再到吸毒再到犯罪的路径的证据。此外，根据生命历程文献，我们还发现这些风险在女性中的表现方式存在重要差异，特别取决于发病年龄和犯罪长期性。我们反思了我们的研究结果对女性犯罪理论和干预的影响。
Building from the developmental and life course literature and the feminist pathways literature, we aim to detail when and how exposure to abuse in childhood shapes female offending trajectories. Using data from 470 female offenders in Australia, our analyses assess whether internalizing symptoms and drug use help explain the link between early abuse and later offending among females. We then examine whether these links are most acute for females who onset early and evidence chronic involvement in offending. In support of the feminist pathways model, we find evidence for a pathway from early abuse to internalizing symptoms to drug use and then offending. In addition, and in line with the life course literature, we also find important differences in how these risks unfold across women, depending particularly on age of onset and offending chronicity. We reflect on the implications of our findings for theory and intervention with respect to female offending.