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...
The recent increase in women's incarceration around the world has generated significant interest in explaining this growth in numbers and identifying ...
Though many more women offenders are supervised in the community than in custody, much less is known about their needs and effective approaches to their supervision, support and treatment. Whilst there has been recent attention paid to responding to the needs of women in prison, negligible attention has been paid to women exiting prison, or on community based orders, and what is needed to work with them to reduce re-offending or entry into prison.
Contributions to this book challenge policy-makers and corrections systems to concentrate more on community provision for women offenders...
Though many more women offenders are supervised in the community than in custody, much less is known about their needs and effective approaches to ...
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..
Provides a comprehensive analysis of issues relating to work with women offenders. This book takes an international focus, to make it relevant to acad...
The prison has often been the focus for concerns about human rights violations, and campaigns aimed at achieving social justice, for those with an interest in the criminalisation of women. To reduce the number of women imprisoned, a range of policy initiatives have been developed to increase the use of community-based responses to women in conflict with the law. These initiatives have tended to operate alongside reforms to the prison estate and are often defined as 'community punishment', 'community sanctions' and 'alternatives to imprisonment'. This book challenges the contention...
The prison has often been the focus for concerns about human rights violations, and campaigns aimed at achieving social justice, for those ...
The risk assessment process, the interventions and treatment commenced as a result of it and the theory behind it are central to the administration of criminal justice programmes around the world. Most youth and adult corrections departments routinely conduct risk assessments, which are then used to inform the nature and intensity of subsequent criminal justice interventions. In this unique and important text, a team of the world's leading researchers in the field of criminal justice come together to provide a critique of this risk paradigm, and to provide practical guidance for...
The risk assessment process, the interventions and treatment commenced as a result of it and the theory behind it are central to the administration of...
