The habitual female offender inside: How psychopathic traits predict chronic prison violence.

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Violence and aggression in young women: The importance of psychopathy and neurobiological function

“…Affective psychopathic traits have been found to differentiate women responsible for the most severe forms of violence [27], and the present study extends on this by finding affective psychopathic traits were positively associated with proactive aggression. Thus, women who lack remorse and empathy, and have a callous disregard for others engage in higher levels of goal-directed aggression.…”

“…However, this is yet to be explored in emerging adult women and as a moderator between psychopathy and violence. This is problematic as there are well-established sex differences in psychopathy, emotion, and aggressive and violent behavior, as well as the link between RSA and aggression [27,29,51,[65][66][67][68][69]. Thus, the present study will be the first female dedicated research to explore the moderating role of neurobiological function (RSA) in the link between psychopathic traits and reactive and proactive aggression and violent behavior.…”

“…Indeed, context plays a significant role in female violence [10], therefore it is likely to expect psychopathy to be differently related to aggressive and violent behavior in nonforensic or clinical samples. Drawing from research including female prisoners, the affective and antisocial facet have been found to prospectively predict chronic violence over a ninemonth period during incarceration [27]. In a recent study, women who were convicted of a violent crime that was not drug-related were found to have higher scores on the affective facet, whereas women convicted drug-related violent crime scored higher on the antisocial facet [10].…”

Prison violence and the intersectionality of race/ethnicity and gender

“…В недавних работах, посвященных совершению в тюрьмах таких преступлений, как убийство, нападение с отягчающими обстоятельствами, захват заложников и учинение массовых беспорядков, было показано, что эти насильственные действия очень редко совершаются заключенными-женщинами [50]. Кроме того, изучалась связь между прошлой криминальной историей женщин-заключенных и их поведением в тюрьмах [60]. По мнению некоторых ученых, межличностные взаимоотношения женщин-заключенных могут становиться более неустойчивыми, чем считалось ранее [61].…”

Women Offender Assessment: Can Gender-Informed Variables Improve Prediction of Institutional Outcomes?

“…Although limited, research has explored potential predictors of institutional misconduct by utilizing female-only offender samples. For instance, prior studies of female-only samples found age at first commitment, having a mental health disorder, offense type, gang affiliation, past violent criminal history, impulsivity, and callous and antisocial psychopathic traits predicted violent and nonviolent institutional misconducts (Blackburn & Trulson, 2010;Thomson, Towl & Centifanti, 2016). These predictors have been found to predict institutional misconducts in males as well (e.g., Arbach-Lucioni et al, 2012;Edens, Poythress, Lilienfeld, Patrick & Test, 2008;Ruddell & Gottschall, 2011).…”