ALCOHOL ABUSE & CRIMINALITY IN WOMEN

鉴于对女性囚犯的研究很少，而女性囚犯的数量却在不断增加，因此有必要更好地了解她们被监禁的风险因素。拟议的研究试图通过考虑酒精使用障碍（AUDs）、认知缺陷和发育风险因素在预测女性监禁中的单独和相互作用，来阐明它们的作用。将对有或没有aud的女性囚犯和从治疗中心招募的女性酗酒者的样本进行比较。依赖性措施包括人口统计、酒精和其他物质使用史、认知功能和发育风险因素，如药物滥用和监禁家族史、童年虐待和儿童精神病理学。

Given the paucity of research with female inmates, yet their increasing numbers, there is a need to better understand risk factors for their incarceration. The proposed research attempts to clarify the roles of alcohol use disorders (AUDs), cognitive deficits, and developmental risk factors by considering their separate and interactive roles in predicting incarceration in women. Comparisons will be made between samples of female inmates, with and without AUDs, and female alcoholics recruited from treatment centers. Dependent measures include demographics, alcohol and other substance use histories, cognitive functioning, and developmental risk factors such as family histories of substance abuse and incarceration, childhood abuse, and childhood psychopathology.