Title: Feminist pathways perspective - Wikipedia
Headings: Feminist pathways perspective
Feminist pathways perspective
Contents
Victimization
Connection to criminal activity
Demographics of victimization
Age
Gender
Polyvictimization
Main Routes from Victimization to Crime
Child abuse
Partner abuse
Critique of the victimization explanation
Women's agency
Intersectionality
Separating offenders and victims
References

Content: Lombroso, for instance, distinguished female offenders from non-offenders based on their physical anatomies. These early explanatory factors were understood individualistically outside of a social-historical context . Connection to criminal activity
There is a well-documented association between criminal behavior and victimization among female offenders. That said, the age and gendered patterns of victimization risk, context, and consequences are highly visible and exacerbated among incarcerated women. There is evidence to support that women involved with crime often have extensive histories of physical and sexual abuse. Female offenders are more likely to have been abused than male offenders and more likely to have been victimized than female non-offenders. A survey of national correctional populations found that over half of female inmates have been physically or sexually abused, compared to fewer than one in five male inmates. Literature suggests female offenders' victimization often begins at a young age and persists through her lifetime. Nearly two thirds of incarcerated women have experienced at least one event of abuse by age eleven. Ninety-two percent of girls under 18 in the California juvenile justice system report having faced emotional, sexual, or physical abuse.