1st Edition
Working with Women Offenders in the Community
400 Pages
by
Willan
426 Pages
by
Willan
400 Pages
by
Willan
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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... Read more
Introduction, Rosemary Sheean, Gill, McIvor and Chris Trotter 1. Female offenders in the community: the context of female crime, Briege Nugent and Nancy Louks 2. Policy developments in England and Wales, Carol Hodderman 3. Policy developments in the USA, Maureen Buell, Phyllis Modley and Patricia Van Voorhis 4. Policy developments in Australia, Rosemary Sheehan 5. Coercion and women offenders, Dolores Blackwell 6. Victimisation and governance: gender-responsive discourses and correctional practice, Shoshana Pollack 7. Working with women offenders in the community: a view from England and Wales, Loraine Gelsthorpe 8. Beyond youth justice: working with girls and young women who offend, Gilly Sharpe 9. Breaking the cycle: addressing cultural difference in rehabilitation programs, Dot Goulding 10. Women, drugs and community interventions, Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor 11. Managing risk in the community: how gender matters, Janet T. Davidson 12. Who cares? Fostering networks and relationships in prison and beyond, Jo Deakin and Jon Spencer 13. Mentoring, Chris Trotter 14. Community mentoring in the United States: an evaluation of the Rhode Island Women's Mentoring Programe, Dawn M. Salgado, Judith B. Fox and Kristen Quinlan 15. Maintaining and restoring family for women prisoners and their children, Rosemary Sarri 16. Connecting to the community: a case study in women's resettlement needs and experiences, Becky Hayes Boober and Erica Hansen King 17. Working with women offenders in the community: what works?, Rosemary Sheehan, Gill McIvor and Chris Trotter
Biography
Rosemary Sheehan, Gill McIvor, Chris Trotter
