What Works With Women Offenders

ISBN-13: 9781843922391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 344 str.

Gill McIvor

Opis

Provides a comprehensive analysis of issues relating to work with women offenders. This book takes an international focus, to make it relevant to academics and practitioners who work in this field around the world..

Spis treści

Introduction, Rosemary Sheehan, Gill McIvor and Chris Trotter  1. The nature of female offending, Gill McIvor  2. The transitional pathways of young female offenders: towards a non-offending style, Monica Barry  3. Sentencing and gender, Loraine Gelsthorpe  4. Risks and needs: factors that predict women's incarceration and inform service planning, Margaret Severson, Marianne Berry and Judy L. Postmus  5. Responding to drug and alcohol problems:innovations and effectiveness in treatment programmes for women, Margaret Malloch and Nancy Loucks  6. Cognitive behavioral programmes, Sue Pearce  7. Parole and probation, Chris Trotter  8. Responding to mental health needs of female offenders, Jim Ogloff and Christine Tye  9. Responding to the health and medical needs of female offenders, Angela M. Wolf, Fabiana Silva, Kelly E. Knight and Shabnam Javdani  10. Women prisoners and their children, Rosemary Sheehan and Catherine Flynn  11. Barriers to employment, training and education in prison and beyond: a peer-led solution, Paul Senior, Caroline O'Keeffe and Valerie Monti Holland  12. Employment:offending and re-intergration, Tracie McPherson  13. Housing and support after prison, Sally Malin  14. What does work for women offenders?, Rosemary Sheehan, Gill McIvor and Chris Trotter