RT Article
T1 The effects of gender and previous prison sentence on the risk of committing crime among a substance-abusing population
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 64
IS 6
SP 703
OP 722
A1 Kaskela, Teemus
A1 Pitkänen, Tuuli
A2 Pitkänen, Tuuli
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1578174368
AB Is the gender gap theory in criminology valid for substance abusers who have been imprisoned? We analyzed the risk of committing a crime between 2006 and 2010 using a Cox regression analysis. The data from Finland consisted of 2,034 women and 4,537 men substance abusers divided into groups based on prior imprisonment. Overall, men had a greater risk of committing any crime than women did. However, the gender gap hypothesis was not valid in the specific case of property crimes in a substance-abusing population with prior incarcerations. Women with prior convictions differ profoundly from other substance-abusing women. This raises a question if imprisonment had a wider marginalizing effect on women than on men.
K1 Gender
K1 Prison sentence
K1 Substance abuse
K1 Cox regression
DO 10.1177/0011128716682229