Female Offender Articles

Understanding Female Offenders: An invaluable resource to those who assess, manage, or treat, enigmatic and dangerous women. By: Jason Smith, Carl Gacono and Ted Cunliffe, Posted on: April 22, 2021

Cunliffe, T. B., & Gacono, C.B. (2005). A Rorschach investigation of incarcerated antisocial personality disordered female offenders. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 49, 530-547.

Smith, J. M., Gacono, C. B., Cunliffe, T. B., Kivisto, A. J., & Taylor, E. E. (2014). Psychodynamics in the female psychopath: A PCL-R/Rorschach investigation. Violence and Gender, 1(4), 176-187.

Smith, J.M., Gacono, C.B., & Cunliffe, T.B. (2018). Comparison of male and female psychopaths on select CS Rorschach variables. SIS Journal of Projective Psychology & Mental Health, 25(2), 138-155.

Smith, J.M., Gacono, C.B., & Cunliffe, T.B. (2019). Understanding the Rorschach egocentricity index with incarcerated women. Archives of Assessment Psychology, 9(1), 139-155.

Smith, J.M., Gacono, C.B., & Cunliffe, T.B. (2020). Female psychopathy and the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI): A study with incarcerated women. Archives of Assessment Psychology, 10(1), 1-18.

Smith, J.M., Gacono, C.B., & Cunliffe, T.B. (2020). Using the Rorschach Trauma Content Index (TCI) with incarcerated women. SIS Journal of Projective Psychology & Mental Health, 27(1), 12-20.

Smith, J.M., Gacono, C.B., & Cunliffe, T.B. (2020). Female psychopathy and aggression: A study with incarcerated women and Rorschach aggression scores. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 29(8), 936-952.

Smith, J.M., Gacono, C.B., & Cunliffe, T.B. (2021). Examining trauma symptoms and interpersonal dependency within incarcerated psychopathic and non-psychopathic women. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma.

Smith, J.M., Gacono, C.B., Kivisto, A.J., & Cunliffe, T.B. (2019). A PCL-R, Rorschach, and PAI investigation of females with sex offenses against minors and a Rorschach comparison with male pedophiles. Archives of Assessment Psychology, 9(1), 113-137.