TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Substance-abusing female offenders as victims: chronological sequencing of pathways into the criminal justice system
JO  - Victims and offenders
A1  - Smith, Vivian C.
SP  - 113
EP  - 137
VL  - 12
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1556-4886
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2015.1017131
ID  - ref1
ER  -