Women convicted for violent offenses: Adverse childhood experiences, low level of education and poor mental health | BMC Psychiatry BioMed Central Open Access Women convicted for violent offenses Adverse childhood experiences low level of education and poor mental health Astrid Rossegger 1 Nicole Wetli1 Frank Urbaniok1 Thomas Elbert2 Franca Cortoni3 and Jérôme Endrass1 Address 1Psychiatric Psychological Service Criminal Justice System Canton of Zurich Feldstrasse 42 Zurich 8090 Switzerland 2Department of Psychology University of Konstanz Universitatsstrafie 10 Konstanz 78464 Germany and 3École de criminologie University of Montreal PO Box 6128 Station Centre-ville Montreal Québec H3C 3J7 Canada Email Astrid Rossegger - Nicole Wetli - Frank Urbaniok - Thomas Elbert - Franca Cortoni - Jérôme Endrass - Corresponding author Published 22 December 2009 Received 17 August 2009 BMC Psychiatry 2009 9 81 doi I47I-244X-9-81 Accepted 22 December 2009 This article is available from http 1471-244X 9 81 2009 Rossegger et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background In past years the female offender population has grown leading to an increased interest in the characteristics of female offenders. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of female violent offending in a Swiss offender population and to compare possible socio-demographic and offense-related gender differences. Methods Descriptive and bivariate logistic regression analyses were performed for a representative sample of N 203 violent offenders convicted in Zurich Switzerland. Results N 16 of .
