Women and Criminal Justice: From the Corston Report to Transforming Rehabilitation

ISBN-13: 9781447319313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 276 str.

Jo Brayford; Jill Annison; John Deering

Opis

Following the deaths of six female inmates, the UK Home Office commissioned the 2007 Corston Report, a parliamentary investigation into the state of vulnerable women in the British criminal justice system. This insightful book explores developments since the report's publication, revealing that while some of its recommendations were accepted by government, actual policy has restricted the scale and scope of change. Investigating a broad range of services for women offenders, contributors consider the question of whether women should be treated differently in the criminal justice system and offer possible future policy directions drawn from the Coalition Government's 2013 Transforming Rehabilitation agenda. This timely analysis will be an important resource for policy makers, service providers, and practitioners alike.

Spis treści

Corston and beyond ~ Jill Annison and Jo Brayford; Part One: Context; Transforming Rehabilitation: implications for women ~ Jill Annison, Jo Brayford and John Deering; The context: women as lawbreakers ~ Loraine Gelsthorpe and Serena Wright; A comparison: criminalised women in Scotland ~ Michele Burman, Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor; Part Two: Reviews of current practice; Probation practice with women offenders in Wales ~ Kate Asher and Jill Annison; Youth justice practice with girls ~ Becky Shepherd; Women’s Centres ~ Leeanne Plechowicz; Older Women Prisoners and The Rubies Project ~ Jill Annison and Alma Hageman; Gendered dynamics of mentoring ~ Gillian Buck, Mary Corcoran and Anne Worrall; ‘Serious therapy’ for serious female offenders: the democratic therapeutic community at HMP Send ~ Alisa Stevens Part Three: Towards best practice; Breaking the cycle for women through equality not difference ~ Martina Feilzer and Kate Williams; ‘A very high price to pay?’: Transforming Rehabilitation and short prison sentences for women ~ Julie Trebilcock and Anita Dockley; The role of the media in women’s penal reform ~ Gemma Birkett; Conclusions ~ Jill Annison, Jo Brayford and John Deering.