Year: 1996
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Most correcyionaf research to date has focused on male offenders.leading to concerns about the adequacy of existing facilities and programs for the smaller number of women who find themselves in the prison system.Previous reszarch suggests that opdmal programming &cisions for incarcerated women will ' be based on research on female rather than male offenders.The present research considered two domains, personality pathology and relational characteristics.with the potential to provide -bfi)mtatio~ for i r n ~i o ~h g zoiredond proganMg decisions for women.Consistently higher rates of personality disorder have been reported for female offenders than for women in the general population.A number of authors, many of them feminist in orientation, have suggested the importance of connections to others in female development.Fifty f d e offenders, including federally and provincially sentenced, remanded, and immigration-hold inmates, were interviewed using the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology-Interview Version.Attachment styles were evaluated using the Relationship Questionnaire and the Relationship Scales Questionnaire.Scores on the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version were also o b h e d for each participant Results indicated there were high levels of personality pathology in the sample, especially on tl e Impulsive Stimulus Seeking and Labiiity factors.Rates of insecure attachment were also high, especially for the Fearful and Dismissing styles.Scores on the interpersonal and affective component of the psychopathy measure were low relative to those on the behavioural component of this iv wecure-Rdmdacy bemen the ~~o n ~t y and i:t;+tcftmenf, maswes was !ow, suggesting that the atm5unent measures were contributing unique information over and above that provided by hfiz personality measure.Relationships between the sets of personality arid attachment variables were examined, and implic_ztions of the present findings for correctional programming for women were discussed.f am indebted to many individuals who generously offered various forms of support while I coryleted my research.My committee members
Source: Summit (Simon Fraser University)
Author: Susan D Turnbull
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2287690677