%0 Journal Article
%T Substance-abusing female offenders as victims: chronological sequencing of pathways into the criminal justice system
%J Victims and offenders
%D 2017
%A Smith, Vivian C.
%V 12
%N 1
%P 113-137
%X This study assesses the entrance of substance-abusing female offenders (N = 1,209) into the criminal justice system through temporal patterns (using age of first victimization, drug use, and arrest). Nine pathways were identified. Unexpectedly, the leading path was a sequence where drug use preceded arrest in absence of childhood victimization. However, women under a path inclusive of victimization possessed more risk factors. <br><br>FINDINGS support feminist pathway research, which states that childhood victimization is generally present in female offenders' lives. Nevertheless, results also revealed that a drug pathway without childhood abuse proved to be as important and even more dominant among criminal justice-involved women.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Informa - Taylor and Francis Group
%@ 1556-4886
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2015.1017131