Counseling Female Offenders and Victims

by Van Wormer, Katherine S.

• ISBN13: 9780826113955
• ISBN10: 0826113958
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Springer Pub Co

Summary

Establishes a link between the crimes of female offenders and environmental factors such as substance abuse and sexual abuse. Combines strategies from the fields of criminal justice and social work to show how to empower female offenders and rehabilitate them. Uses a 'strengths-restorative' approach. For counselors and students.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(10)
Part 1 From Victimization to Empowerment
Women and the Justice System	11	(48)
Introduction	12	(2)
The Punitive Ethos	14	(3)
Backlash Against Women	17	(7)
Key Concepts	24	(5)
Feminist Therapy	24	(1)
Human Rights are Women's Rights	25	(1)
The Political is Personal, and the Personal is Political	25	(1)
Non-Dichotomous Thinking	25	(1)
Gender, Race, and Class	26	(1)
Equality with a Vengeance	27	(1)
Blaming the Victim	27	(1)
Empowerment	28	(1)
Paradigm Shift	28	(1)
The Strengths-Restorative Paradigm	29	(18)
The Strengths Perspective	31	(4)
Criminal Justice, Social Work and Restorative Justice	35	(4)
Exemplary Initiatives	39	(6)
An Integrated Model	45	(2)
Summary and Conclusion	47	(12)
Skills of Empowerment Counseling	59	(27)
The Treatment Relationship	61	(3)
Client-Centered Approach	62	(2)
The Language of Strengths Therapy	64	(5)
Language Fluency	64	(3)
Choosing Words Carefully	67	(1)
Following Through	68	(1)
Personalizing Treatment	69	(1)
Subduing Resistance	70	(5)
Disarming Hostility	70	(1)
Positive Reframing	71	(1)
Confrontation or Challenging	72	(1)
Responding Verbally to Body Language	73	(2)
Guidelines for Empowerment Counseling	75	(7)
Seek the Positive	75	(1)
Listen to the Personal Narrative	76	(2)
Validate the Pain	78	(1)
Don't Dictate: Collaborate	79	(2)
Draw on the Best of your Social Work Imagination	81	(1)
Summary and Conclusion	82	(4)
Partner Abuse, Rape, and Incest	86	(55)
Battered Women	88	(21)
Nature and Scope of the Problem	89	(3)
Historical Overview	92	(1)
The Dynamics of Battering	93	(6)
From the Battered Woman's Perspective	99	(3)
The Child Abuse Connection	102	(4)
The Substance Abuse Connection	106	(1)
Homicide	107	(2)
Rape	109	(3)
Date Rape	109	(1)
Stranger Rape	109	(1)
Incest	110	(1)
Rape in War	110	(2)
Statistics on Rape	112	(3)
Comparative Data	114	(1)
The Biology of Rape	115	(1)
The Psychology of Rape	116	(2)
The Sociology of Rape	118	(3)
Victimization	121	(11)
Childhood Sexual Abuse	125	(3)
Incest	128	(1)
Revictimization through the Legal Process	129	(3)
Summary and Conclusion	132	(9)
Victim Empowerment Counseling and Prevention	141	(50)
Victims' Rights	142	(8)
Intervention in Domestic Violence Situations	150	(7)
Social Action	150	(3)
Workplace Protection	153	(1)
Child Welfare	153	(1)
Shelters	153	(2)
Crisis Intervention	155	(2)
Trauma Work	157	(6)
Helping Traumatized Women	157	(6)
Treating Trauma in Children Who Witness Violence	163	(2)
Treating Child Sexual Assault Victims	165	(2)
Healing through Restorative Justice	167	(1)
Victim/Offender Mediation	168	(1)
Cautionary Note	169	(1)
Victim/Offender Panels	170	(2)
Activism	171	(1)
Treating Batterers	172	(11)
Work with Sex Offenders	173	(10)
Summary and Conclusion	183	(8)
Part II The Woman as Offender
The Nature of Female Crime	191	(36)
Media Accounts of Female Crime	192	(3)
Profile of the Female Criminal	195	(4)
Race and Class	198	(1)
Theories of Female Crime	199	(9)
Biological Theories	199	(4)
Psychological Theories	203	(3)
Social Theories	206	(1)
Integrated Theory of Women and Crimes	207	(1)
Crimes of Violence	208	(12)
Murder	208	(1)
Mothers Charged with Murdering their Children	209	(2)
Girls in the Gang	211	(1)
Property Crimes	212	(1)
Prostitution	213	(2)
Sexual Offenses	215	(2)
Drug-Related Crime	217	(3)
Summary and Conclusion	220	(7)
Women in Prison	227	(74)
History of the Women's Prison	229	(2)
The Population Profile	231	(5)
Prison Conditions	236	(13)
Health Care Needs	241	(4)
Mental Health Care	245	(1)
HIV and TB	246	(3)
Sexual Abuse of Female Inmates	249	(7)
An International Perspective	256	(3)
Encouraging Developments	259	(1)
National Survey of Women's Prison Administrators	260	(5)
Questionnaire Results	261	(4)
Discussion	265	(1)
The Social World of the Women's Prison	265	(7)
Prison Families	266	(3)
Prison Sexuality	269	(3)
Women on Death Row	272	(4)
Advocacy for Inmate Mothers and Their Children	276	(4)
Specialized Prison Therapy Programs	280	(1)
Classification	280	(1)
Counseling in a Total Institution	281	(3)
Trauma Work with Prison Inmates	284	(3)
Gender-Based Programming	287	(4)
Summary and Conclusion	291	(10)
Counseling the Female Offender	301	(60)
Strengths and Turning Points	303	(4)
Treatment Effectiveness Studies	307	(3)
``The Criminal Personality'' Model	310	(1)
Addictions Counseling	311	(2)
Women's Only Programs	313	(4)
Motivational Interviewing	317	(2)
Five Stage Empowerment Model	319	(27)
Dialogue	319	(3)
Awareness and Future Goals	322	(3)
Motivational and Feeling Work	325	(2)
Cognitive Therapy	327	(2)
All or Nothing Thinking	329	(2)
Self-Talk and Positive Restructuring	331	(1)
Feeling work	332	(1)
Anger Management	333	(3)
Grief, Loss, and Guilt	336	(4)
Anxiety	340	(1)
Stress Management	341	(1)
Depression	342	(1)
Rules for Conflict Resolution	343	(3)
Healing	346	(5)
Spiritual Healing	349	(2)
Generativity	351	(1)
The Strengths-Restorative Approach with Delinquent Girls	352	(1)
Summary and Conclusion	353	(8)
Epilogue	361	(4)
Appendix: Resources	365	(4)
Index	369