Abuse in the Prison Cycle
Percent of women have suffered physical and/or sexual abuse prior to incarceration (within 5% of correct answer)
What is about 66% or 2/3 of all women imprisoned?
Categories that incarcerated women are more likely to fall in (guess at least one)
what is poor, less educated, part of a racial minority, have substance abuse issues
General types of crimes are many women imprisoned for (name at least one)
What are non-violent, drug-related, or accessory to crimes?
Kinds of personal issues can childhood abuse lead to that would cause women to be but in prison (name at least 1)
What are mental health issues or drug abuse (professionally or self-medicated)
Percent of women that are imprisoned for nonviolent crimes (within 5%)
What is 81%?
A crime 50% of women in prison reported
What is domestic abuse?
Percent of girls in juvenile prison that have been sexually abused (within 5% of correct answer)
What is 54%?
The percent that, according to a 1989 study, childhood abuse increased likelihood of being arrested for a violent crime by (within 5%)
What is 38%?
Reasons why childhood abuse would lead to later abuse in prisons (guess at least one)
What are women want to feel loved/wanted, abuse is seen as a normal experience to them, they do not understand they are being violated, they are used to a power figure controlling them?
Number of prison guards punished for sexual misconduct in 1997 (within 5)
What is 10?
The 3 psychological explanations for why childhood abuse and crime are related (name at least 1)
Social Control Theory, Social Learning Theory, and Social-psychological Strain Theory
A study found that over half of incarcerated women in a New York Prison reported engaging in illegal activity for this reason.
What is male coercion/in response to abuse?