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Reflections on the Sociodemographic and Medicolegal Profiles of Female Criminal Defendants

Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA 23298-0710, U.S.A.

J. Arboleda-Florez

Department of Psychiatry, Calgary General Hospital, Calgary, Alberta T2E OA1, Canada

Annette Crisante

Department of Psychiatry, Calgary General Hospital, Calgary, Alberta T2E OAI, Canada

This article describes the sociodemographic and medicolegal characteristics of 222 female criminal defendants ref erred by the courts to a forensic psychiatric service over a 10-year period. The typical female criminal defendant was young, poorly educated, occupationally disadvantaged, unmamed, and from a broken home. Three Axis I diagnoses (schizophrenia, major affective disorder, and psychoactive substance use disorder) accounted for 55% of the psychopathology, whereas antisocial personality and borderline personality disorders accounted for 16% of personality disorders among the group. The most common charge was that of property offenses.

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 40, No. 1, 74-84 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X96401009


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