Cathrine Pettersen

Cathrine’s Ph.D. dissertation focuses on justice-involved adult women. The overall goals of her current dissertation are a) to systematically review and meta-analyze the relationship between mental disorders and recidivism among adult women, and b) to use latent class analyses to derive classes of adult women, based on gender-neutral, gender-specific, and mental health variables. Ultimately, results of the studies may be used to inform case management, risk and needs assessments, security classifications, and treatment programs, all with the aim of increasing empirical knowledge of the underlying causes of crime and reducing recidivism.

Cathrine’s research interests also include scale validation and associated latent modeling techniques (e.g., CFA, EFA, and LCA) as well as meta-analysis.  She is most interested in special populations, including justice-involved adult women, psychopathic and non-psychopathic men who have sexually offended, and mentally disordered men and women in conflict with the law. In addition, Cathrine is often preoccupied with the welfare of incarcerated men and women in Canada and has focused on the use of administrative segregation (solitary confinement) with federally incarcerated adult women in Canada in a recent (not for publication) paper.

Please see the attached link to view Cathrine’s extensive list of publications, conference papers, conference posters, employment experience, and funding.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cathrine_Pettersen