The women offenders' intimate relationships with males have demonstrated differences in effects on criminal involvement when compared to the effects of men's intimate relationships. Research has indicated that women's romantic relationships with men influence their participation in crime. The purpose of this thesis was to examine the influence that intimate relationships have on the recidivism of women under community supervision. A secondary analysis of an existing dataset was used to determine whether having a criminal intimate partner was a significant predictor of recidivism, and for a subsample of women who said their partners had contributed to criminality or violations of conditions of supervision, to present the women's explanations of how men got them in trouble. Bivariate and multivariate analyses revealed relationships between criminal partners and women's recidivism were not significant. However, based on the perceptions of women offenders, the qualitative analyses indicated multiple ways that male partners got some women in trouble.
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