Cycles of Pain: Risk Factors in the Lives of Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Prison Journal
- Vol. 80 (1) , 3-23
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0032885500080001001
Abstract
This study extends the risk factors model of background or social history analysis to the lives of incarcerated mothers. Interviews were conducted with a sample of incarcerated mothers. The presence of a number of criminogenic influences such as poverty, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and witnessing violence in the lives of women incarcerated for primarily nonviolent—largely drug-related—offenses and in the lives of their children were identified. The implications of these findings for understanding female criminality and breaking the so-called cycle of crime are discussed.Keywords
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