In feminist criminology, there is a growing body of research exploring gendered pathways into prison. However, this research has focussed predominantly on women. There are few gender comparative studies. Further, most feminist pathways research is western centric having, for the most part, been undertaken in the United States. Utilising categorical principal components analysis alongside descriptive statistics and illustrative case study examples, this paper adds to the feminist pathways research by describing and comparing women’s and men’s pathways to prison in Thailand. Three common pathways to prison emerged for both women and men: (1) peer group association/deviant lifestyle, (2) harmed and harming, (3) economically motivated. However, gendered variance was found within these common pathways. Further, two pathways emerged exclusively for women: (1) adulthood victimisation and dysfunctional intimate relationships, (2) naivety and deception. These results substantiate the notion that trajectories into prison are gendered, add empirical support to the feminist pathways perspective beyond the west, contribute to knowledge on how both women and men come to be in prison in Thailand, and in doing so, have utility for the development of gender-informed prison policies, and practices as per the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-Custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules).

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泰国女性和男性入狱途径的性别比较探索

在女权主义犯罪学中，越来越多的研究探索进入监狱的性别途径。然而，这项研究主要集中在女性身上。很少有性别比较研究。此外，大多数女权主义路径研究是以西方为中心的，大部分是在美国进行的。利用分类主成分分析以及描述性统计和说明性案例研究示例，本文通过描述和比较泰国女性和男性进入监狱的途径，为女权主义途径研究增添了内容。女性和男性都出现了三种常见的入狱途径：（1）同龄人交往/异常生活方式，（2）伤害和伤害，（3）经济动机。然而，在这些共同途径中发现了性别差异。更多，专门针对女性的两种途径出现了：(1) 成年受害和功能失调的亲密关系，(2) 天真和欺骗。这些结果证实了进入监狱的轨迹是性别化的概念，为西方以外的女权主义途径观点增加了实证支持，有助于了解泰国女性和男性如何进入监狱，并且这样做对根据《联合国女性囚犯待遇和女性罪犯非拘禁措施规则》（曼谷规则）制定性别知情的监狱政策和做法。