Exam 5: Women, Substance Abuse, and Criminal Justice

Insights from "the criminal personality" approach are considered by the text authors to be well suited for women dealing with issues of anger.

Teachings based on "the criminal personality" study are criticized for not being _________ for women

Over a quarter of women in state prison were sentenced for drug-related offenses.

Empirical evidence indicated treatment for drug-abusing women is:

In Iowa, the drug of choice among female inmates in the first decade of the 21^st century was meth.

Discuss model programming for the female offender with substance use problems.

Prison-based therapeutic community is generally not recommended for women due to harsh confrontation and close _____________.

According to the text, the war on drugs is a war on:

The following statement is true:

Alcoholic and drug-using women are not particularly vulnerable to victimization in the form of theft.

Government monitoring of pregnant women overwhelmingly ends up targeting poor minority women:

Prison-based therapeutic community is generally not recommended for women due to the harsh confrontation and close supervision associated with this model.

Women are severely affected by punitive sentencing laws through:

Some people claim that addiction is a brain disease. What is the evidence for this claim?

Women often use meth to:

Paranoid schizophrenia is a common disorder in women with substance use disorders.

Programs for drug-dependent female offenders, according to the text, should include:

The medical term for infants born with symptoms of drug withdrawal is____________.

Treatment plays a strong role in crime prevention.

It is a federal crime to physically beat a woman who is known to be pregnant and to put the unborn child at risk.