Pathways to women's crime: differences among women convicted of drug, violence and fraud offenses.

The current study was conducted on 60 Israeli female inmates. Our aim was to examine the differences among women convicted for drug, violence, and fraud offenses by socio-demographic variables and self-control and aggression levels. Results revealed that the drug group was characterized by measures attributed to chronic delinquency, and the fraud group was found to fit the pathway to low crime.

Typology of intimate partner homicide: personal, interpersonal, and environmental characteristics of men who murdered their female intimate partner.

Fifteen inmates from Ayalon prison, a maximum-security prison in Israel, who were convicted of murder, attempted murder, or manslaughter of their female intimate partner, have participated in a study designed to examine integrated variables-personal, interpersonal, and environmental-familial-connected with this phenomenon. Analyses of the in-depth interviews demonstrate that despite the different motivations the perpetrators displayed with regard to the murder, they share some common themes. On the basis of these themes, three primary types of female intimate partner murderers have been identified; each of them represents a personal narrative as follows: the betrayed, the abandoned, and the tyrant.

Prisoners' perception of informing to the authorities: an analysis in terms of functional moral judgment.

A series of functional measurement experiment show that prisoners modulate their moral judgments of violations of their in-group regulations. The participants were 67 women and 80 men, sentenced for at least three years for murder, robbery, drug-traffic or white collar offenses. Each was asked, individually, to imagine a series of incidents where incriminating information on in-group or out-group inmates is delivered to the prison authorities or to an ingroup source and to rate the deserved denigration of the informer, who was characterized as a leader or not and as a drug-addict or not who had a prison-leave or not.

Personal and situational factors in drug use as perceived by kibbutz youth.

Sixteen 17-year-old kibbutz members, seven of them smokers, and nine nonsmokers of hashish, assessed the probability that a young person of similar background would use drugs. Two sources of information were manipulated bifactorially: personal predisposition (curiosity, risk-taking, and existential meaning) and the level of group pressure to smoke hashish. It was found that hashish smokers assigned meaningful importance to a combined influence of the two factors, while the nonsmokers considered only group pressure to be important.