Motherhood Status and Behavioral Health Among Justice-Involved Women: A Nationwide Study

Qianwei Zhao, Beidi Dong, Pajarita Charles, Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, Baylor University, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Feminist Criminology

Published online on March 13, 2025

Abstract

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Research on justice-involved women has mainly focused on mothers with minor children or treated this population as a homogeneous group. Little is known about the disparities between women with and without children and the role of motherhood status and ...