My experience is that most women have had very traumatic experiences. You can imagine the sort of trauma. Often when I'm listening to a woman, I have the box of kleenex between us and I'm dipping into the box of kleenex as is the woman. So there are very many traumatic experiences that contribute both to their mental health difficulties and also to their drug and/or alcohol use. So many of them are using drugs and alcohol to either control the emotions that arise from the trauma or to numb the emotions. Then they're committing crimes because of the drug and alcohol issues and/or the desperation.
On March 16th, 2010. See this statement in context.