What Works With Women Offenders

by Sheehan; Rosemary

• ISBN13: 9781843922391
• ISBN10: 1843922398
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-08-01
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

The number of women prisoners has been growing rapidly during recent years and in many places has more than doubled in the past decade, significantly outstripping increases in the number of male prisoners - and with particular consequences for minority ethnic, black and aboriginal women, who constitute disproportionate levels of prison populations in many countries including Canada, the United States, the UK and Australia.What Works with Women Offenders provides a comprehensive analysis of the issues relating to work with women offenders. Chapters are written by academics and professionals with a high degree of expertise in their specific field, and its practical focus is designed to make it relevant to those working with women offenders.Imprisoning women offenders does not solve the problems that underlie the involvement of women in the criminal justice system, and a particular concern of this book is to identify and develop alternative responses that offer appropriate support and intervention to address women's underlying problems and reduce re-offending. The increase in women's imprisonment is very much an international phenomenon, and the book also aims to share knowledge and experiences from different jurisdictions to be shared more widely, and for the lessons learnt from good practice to be more widely disseminated.

Table of Contents

The nature of female offending	p. 1
The transitional pathways of young female offenders : towards a non-offending lifestyle	p. 23
Sentencing and gender	p. 40
Risks and needs : factors that predict women's incarceration and inform service planning	p. 61
Responding to drug and alcohol problems : innovations and effectiveness in treatment programmes for women	p. 91
Offending behaviour programmes for women offenders	p. 110
Parole and probation	p. 124
Responding to mental health needs of women offenders	p. 142
Responding to the health needs of female offenders	p. 182
Women prisoners and their children	p. 214
Barriers to employment, training and education in prison and beyond : a peer-led solution	p. 240
Employment : offending and reintegration	p. 262
Housing and support after prison	p. 279
What does work for women offenders?	p. 300
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