...Sarah Frith; Kerensa Hocken Purpose This study aims to explore factors considered by trans-female prisoners with sexual convictions when deciding to transition gender in custody. Design/methodology/approach Seven in-depth interviews were conducted in two prisons in England with prisoners who...

...-injurious behaviour and effective treatment of it. Data were analysed with SPSS 25.0, mainly with descriptive analyses. Considering the significant gender differences in recorded prevalence of self-injurious behaviour, we conducted post-hoc analyses on differences in method and severity of incidents...

.... Nienke Verstegen is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: nverstegen@dfzs.nl In addition to psychopathology, gender differences in inpatient aggression is another well researched area. Research showed that women are no less likely to commit violent acts during hospitalization than men...

...Paul Rogers; Michelle Lowe; Matthew Boardman Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact victim symptomology, victim resistance and respondent gender have on attributions of blame, credibility and perceived assault severity in a hypothetical child sexual abuse case...

... their masculinity in the context of their community orders. Sarah Senker can be contacted at: ssenke@essex.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Young offenders Community orders Tagging Self‐determination Masculinity Criminals Young people United Kingdom Rehabilitation Gender...

... the interrater reliability of the PCL: YV are presented, along with an examination of meta‐analytic findings on the predictive accuracy of the tool. Considerations with respect to gender, ethnicity and development are explored. Some discussion points are offered regarding potential clinical applications...

... offenders. Respondents did not have a more negative attitude to female sex offenders than to male sex offenders. KEY WORDS attitudes and victim type; sex offenders; gender; forensic staff Introduction Attitudes are complex elements of our personalities and central to formation of stereotypes and behaviour...