Deck 20: Intervention With Female Offenders

Question 1

The factors that lead to criminal behaviour are universal, regardless of gender.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Which of the following refer to models of interventions that have been informed by women-based research (rather than adaptation of male-based models of interventions)?

A) Gender-neutral
B) Gender-specific
C) Gender-informed

Answer 2

Gender-informed

Question 3

There are three trajectories of antisocial behaviour partially supported by research. What are these three trajectories?

Answer 3

1. Early-onset/life-course-persistent
2. Adolescence-limited
3. Adolescence-delayed-onset

Question 4

Females are less prone to severe and violent behaviour compared to males.

Question 5

There is evidence of which mental disorder being comorbid with antisocial behaviours in females and grows more severe as they enter adulthood?

A) Bipolar disorder
B) Depression
C) Eating disorders
D) Obsessive compulsive disorder

Question 6

It appears that the justice system aims to protect girls against their abusive environments and dangerous lifestyles, rather than to protect society from them.

Question 7

Programmes such as the Nurse-family Partnership are what type of intervention programme?

Question 8

Over the last two decades, in comparison to earlier base rates, what have the rates of violence committed by women done?

A) Decreased
B) Stayed relatively stable
C) Increased

Question 9

Whilst women commit fewer crimes than men, women recidivate at higher rates than men.

Question 10

There are several main pathways to offending for women. Which of the below is not one of them?

A) The "normal functioning" drug/property pathway
B) The battered women/victimization pathway
C) The poor marginalized antisocial pathway
D) The antisocial aggressive pathway
E) The pre-existing mental illness pathway

Question 11

The types of treatment that have been empirically demonstrated to be effective with all offenders, male or female, are cognitive and behaviourally-based structured interventions.

Question 12

Women's ability to deal with stress is greatly improved when_____ are available.

Question 13

Who does better in a single-gender therapy?

A) Only women do better
B) Both men and women do better
C) Only men do better
D) Neither men nor women do better