Impact of Partner Violence on Female Delinquency

Abstract

In recent decades there has been an increase of criminal behavior by women, which is due to social rather than individual change. Feminist analysis points to the existence of an androcentric and patriarchal order, which through the practices of subjectification, builds the identity of the subjects. These practices have been shaped by close affective bonds, including couple bounds, who in turn have constructed them as criminals. Ninety-four women were interviewed in six prisons in four countries. Their life stories were analyzed through Atlas.ti. Affective bonds with the partner and gender violence are the two main categories of analysis. It was found that the affective bonds with the partner that included violent behavior can be a factor leading these women towards crime. The findings suggest that the women were imprisoned, before entering prison, in violent relationships that held them, configuring their subjectivity. The violent partner bonds and female delinquency associated with them are the product of a patriarchal society that does not see a difference between being a victim or being criminal.

Психологические Маркеры Созависимого Поведения: Теория И Практика

“…С другой стороны, данное определение обогащает психологические подходы взглядом сквозь призму глубинных особенностей людей, проявляющих созависимые паттерны поведения, в отличие от тех авторов, которые сконцентрированы на исключительно соматических и поведенческих аспектах, проявляющихся у созависимых личностей (Башманов, Калиниченко, 2015;Биктагирова, Гарифуллина, 2018;Булатников, Зарецкий, 2017;Голованова, 2016;Егоров, 2015;Сомкина, Жукова, 2017;Карпушина, 2017;Каяшева, Ефремова, 2016;Кораблина, 2019;Литвинова, 2017;Москаленко, 2016;Нечин, 2016;Пакулина, Лазарев, Филатов, 2016;Перминова, 2017;Плешакова, 2018а;Плешакова, 2018б;Полкова, 2018;Полухина, 2018;Саломатова, 2019;Aristizábal, 2019;Rohden et al, 2017;Weiss, 2016).…”

Leaving a Violent Relationship

“…Thus, the processes of criminalization of women are historically and contextually situated (Torres 2008;Almeda 2002), and correspond to the type of relationships that define and re-construct them as social subjects. Aristizábal and Cubells (2019) argue that women in prison were already imprisoned before entering prison as victims of gender violence, which is generally promoted by their partner (also known as domestic violence). The women arrive in jail escaping from a violent relationship, and in this action of escape they find crime as their only alternative.…”