RT Article
T1 The Relationship Between Interpersonal Victimization and Women’s Criminal Sentencing: a Latent Class Analysis
JF Women & criminal justice
VO 28
IS 3
SP 212
OP 232
A1 Kennedy, Stephanie C.
A2 Feely, Megan
A2 Mennicke, Annelise M.
A2 Tripodi, Stephen J.
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1733457283
AB Latent class analysis was used to identify subgroups of incarcerated women differentiated by experiences of child abuse and intimate partner violence victimization. The abuse subscales of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and the Abuse Behavior Inventory were used as indicators. Data were drawn from a probability sample of 217 incarcerated women housed in two state-level prisons in North Carolina. Four classes were extracted—Low Victimization, Child Abuse, Lifetime Physical and Psychological Abuse, and Lifetime Sexual Abuse; classes were then related to current sentence length, holding criminological predictors constant. Women in the Child Abuse and Lifetime Sexual Abuse classes had significantly longer sentences, despite the lack of significant between-class differences on criminological predictors. Results suggest that certain victimization patterns, notably experiences of sexual violence, were associated with sentencing disparities despite the use of structured sentencing grids. Recommendations for trauma-informed sentencing are provided.
K1 Child Abuse
K1 Gendered pathways perspective
K1 Incarcerated women
K1 Intimate partner violence victimization
K1 Latent Class Analysis
K1 Sentencing
K1 Sexual Abuse
DO 10.1080/08974454.2018.1441774