Working with Women Offenders in the Community

ISBN-13: 9781843928881 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 400 str.

Rosemary Sheehan;Gill McIvor;Chris Trotter

Opis

The recent increase in women's incarceration around the world has generated significant interest in explaining this growth in numbers and identifying female offenders' distinctive circumstances and needs. It has also prompted a re-examination of community based alternatives to custody and whether and how enhancements to existing community based services might stem the flow of women to custody. Working with Women Offenders in the Community argues that correctional intervention is more effective for women offenders when it is gender responsive, and that the needs of women offenders are best met within the community, by programs and approaches discussed. This book concentrates on the needs of women who offend, the principles that inform the development of policies on which to build expertise in working with women in the community and gender responsive practices that have been implemented. What emerges from these initiatives is a template for effective community correctional interventions for women who offend. The book offers a practical focus on the work of those professionals engaged with women in the community - including probation officers, community corrections officers and specialist case managers in areas such as drug treatment, housing, mental health or employment programs - with a view to promoting women's re-integration in the community and encouraging their desistance from crime.

Spis treści

Introduction, Rosemary Sheean, Gill, McIvor and Chris Trotter 1. Female offenders in the community: the context of female crime, Briege Nugent and Nancy Louks 2. Policy developments in England and Wales, Carol Hodderman 3. Policy developments in the USA, Maureen Buell, Phyllis Modley and Patricia Van Voorhis 4. Policy developments in Australia, Rosemary Sheehan 5. Coercion and women offenders, Dolores Blackwell 6. Victimisation and governance: gender-responsive discourses and correctional practice, Shoshana Pollack 7. Working with women offenders in the community: a view from England and Wales, Loraine Gelsthorpe 8. Beyond youth justice: working with girls and young women who offend, Gilly Sharpe 9. Breaking the cycle: addressing cultural difference in rehabilitation programs, Dot Goulding 10. Women, drugs and community interventions, Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor 11. Managing risk in the community: how gender matters, Janet T. Davidson 12. Who cares? Fostering networks and relationships in prison and beyond, Jo Deakin and Jon Spencer 13. Mentoring, Chris Trotter 14. Community mentoring in the United States: an evaluation of the Rhode Island Women's Mentoring Programe, Dawn M. Salgado, Judith B. Fox and Kristen Quinlan 15. Maintaining and restoring family for women prisoners and their children, Rosemary Sarri 16. Connecting to the community: a case study in women's resettlement needs and experiences, Becky Hayes Boober and Erica Hansen King 17. Working with women offenders in the community: what works?, Rosemary Sheehan, Gill McIvor and Chris Trotter

O autorze

Rosemary Sheehan, Gill McIvor, Chris Trotter