The Assessment and Treatment of Women Offenders

By Kelley Blanchette, Shelley L. Brown. 2006

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There is a large body of research that provides guidance for those working with offenders on how they should be treated once they are in the correctional system. The problem is that most, if not all this research has been conducted on all male populations and it is assumed that women offenders are the same. However, women have different needs and support systems than men in some areas of their lives and it is unclear whether all research based on men can be generalized in this way.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Long-Term Patterns of Offending in Women (2010, background): “Studies based on a variety of samples and measures consistently find criminal participation to be lower for women than men and the decline in prevalence with age more prominent for women (Belknap, 2007; Blanchette & Brown, 2006; Kruttschnitt, 1994; Visher & Roth, 1986).”
Gender Matters: An Introduction to the Special Issues on Women and Girls (2016, background): “…models have emerged for use with female offenders, often referred to as gender-responsive approaches (e.g., Bartlett, Jhanjib, Whitec, & Harty, 2014; Blanchette & Brown, 2006; Covington & Bloom, 2006; Heilbrun et al., 2008; Long, Fulton, & Hollin, 2008; see van Voorhis et al., 2010, p. 282).”
Actuarial Sentencing: An “Unsettled” Proposition (2013, background): “Several scholars (Morash 2009; Belknap and Holsinger 2006; Blanchette and Brown 2006; Bloom, Owen, & Covington, 2003; HannahMoffat and Shaw 2001; Morash, Bynum, & Koons, 1998) fault risk instruments for overclassifying women, ignoring the risk factors and needs most relevant to women offenders, and”
The Proportion of Sexual Offenders Who Are Female Is Higher Than Thought (2017, background): “…because they are mentally disturbed fits comfortably with traditional theories of female offending that have described criminalized women either as emotionally disturbed, maladapted to their feminine role, or physiologically or psychologically abnormal (Blanchette & Brown, 2006; DeKeseredy, 2009).”
The Predictive Validity of a General Risk/Needs Assessment Inventory on Sexual Offender Recidivism and an Exploration of the Professional Override (2012, background): “The gender finding is not surprising in light of the popular notion that risk assessment tools generally do not treat women offenders fairly (e.g., Andrews, et al., 2012; Blanchette & Brown, 2006; Van Voorhis, Wright, Salisbury, & Bauman, 2010).”
Sources of Variability in Estimates of Predictive Validity (2011, background): “One important issue pertains to the gender of the offender being assessed, specifically, the applicability of the LS to women offenders (e.g., Blanchette & Brown, 2006; HannahMoffat, 2004, 2009; Holtfreter & Cupp, 2007; Van Voorhis, Salisbury, Wright, & Bauman, 2008).”
General Risk and Need, Gender Specificity, and the Recidivism of Female Offenders (2010, methodology): “Many of the feminist models assert that the role of gender is central to female offending (for a review, see Blanchette & Brown, 2006).”