The Role of Victimization and Life Stress in Female Offending

Last Updated on March 14th, 2024 at 11:54 am
Originally Published on October 13th, 2021 at 06:42 pm
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Overview
Summary
Implications for Mitigation
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Overview

Exploring the nature of childhood trauma, mental illness, and substance abuse and its impacts on female sexual offenders.

Summary

This is a qualitative study published in 2015 by DeCou et al.  Previous research had suggested that women offenders have several domains of vulnerability that contribute to their offending behaviors. 

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