Violence against incarcerated women : predicting risk through the lens of childhood harm Nancy Wolff, Eva Aizpurua and Dan Peng
By: Wolff, Nancy
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Contributor(s): Aizpurua, Eva | Peng, Dan.
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ArticleSeries: Violence Against Women.Publisher: Sage, 2021Subject(s): ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE | ADULT SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE | ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES | INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE | PREVALENCE | PRISONERS | SEXUAL VIOLENCE | WOMEN PRISONERS | INTERNATIONAL | UNITED STATESOnline resources: DOI: 10.1177/10778012211035814
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Violence Against Women, 2021, First published 16 October 2021Summary: Victimization is common inside prisons and much remains unknown about the predictors of violence against incarcerated women. A sample of 564 incarcerated women was used to examine the link between in-prison victimization, childhood (physical, sexual, and emotional) harm, and mental illness. Nearly half or more of women reported childhood harm and over one-quarter experienced in-prison victimization. Childhood harm fell into four latent classes and low sexual abuse and high abuse classes predicted resident-on-resident sexual victimization, as did single types of childhood harm. Current depressive symptoms and perceptions of overcrowding predicted physical and sexual victimization perpetrated by residents and correctional staff. (Authors' abstract). Record #7344
Violence Against Women, 2021, First published 16 October 2021
Victimization is common inside prisons and much remains unknown about the predictors of violence against incarcerated women. A sample of 564 incarcerated women was used to examine the link between in-prison victimization, childhood (physical, sexual, and emotional) harm, and mental illness. Nearly half or more of women reported childhood harm and over one-quarter experienced in-prison victimization. Childhood harm fell into four latent classes and low sexual abuse and high abuse classes predicted resident-on-resident sexual victimization, as did single types of childhood harm. Current depressive symptoms and perceptions of overcrowding predicted physical and sexual victimization perpetrated by residents and correctional staff. (Authors' abstract). Record #7344
