SEX-ROLE ORIENTATION AMONG INCARCERATED WOMEN

This study of 120 women inmates of a state prison showed that sex-role orientation was related to the type of offence committed by women but , contrary to the hypothesis about the ''new'' female offender, violen t offenders were more traditionally feminine than financial and drug-r elated offenders. Drug offenders had high rates of undifferentiated ra tings. Women became more traditionally masculine or feminine with leng th of incarceration. Women who had children were more likely to score as traditionally feminine.