Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2013 Aug;28(12):2462-90. doi: 10.1177/0886260513479034. Epub 2013 Mar 18.
A majority of the existing research on women's use of violence focuses on intimate partner violence, often excluding other types of violence for which women may be incarcerated. The current study expands this area of research by assessing between and within-group differences among a randomly selected group of incarcerated women (n = 543). Comparisons between violent and nonviolent offense types among women found few differences, but significant differences among women with an assaultive offense, based on the presence or absence of a self-reported uncaught violence, were found. Differences in women with isolated (i.e., single incident of violence perpetration through a review of formal and self-report data) and patterned uses of violence were present in relation to issues of mental health, substance abuse, criminogenic risk, and expressions of anger and personality factors. These findings have important implications for intervention as well as future research.
大多数现有的关于女性使用暴力的研究都集中在亲密伴侣暴力上，往往排除了其他可能导致女性被监禁的暴力类型。本研究通过评估随机选择的一组被监禁女性（n=543）的组间和组内差异，扩展了这一研究领域。对女性的暴力和非暴力犯罪类型进行比较后发现，两者之间几乎没有差异，但在有攻击性犯罪的女性中，根据是否存在自我报告的未被发现的暴力行为，存在显著差异。在心理健康、药物滥用、犯罪风险以及愤怒和人格因素的表达等问题上，孤立（即通过审查正式和自我报告数据来确定的单一暴力行为事件）和模式化使用暴力的女性之间存在差异。这些发现对干预和未来的研究都具有重要意义。
