Women who offend [electronic resource] / edited by Gill McIvor.
Material type: TextSeries: Research highlights in social work ; 44.Publication details: London : New York, N.Y. : J. Kingsley, c2004Description: 302 p. : illSubject(s): Female offenders -- Rehabilitation | Female offendersGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 364.3/74 LOC classification: HV6046 | .W656 2004Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
Female offending: a theoretical overview / Loraine Gelsthorpe -- Breaking the mould: patterns of female offending / Michele Burman -- From 'a safer to a better way': transformations on penal policy for women / Jacqueline Tombs -- Why are more women being sentenced to custody? / Carol Hedderman -- Living with paradox: community supervision of women offenders / Judith Rumgay -- Service with a smile? women and community 'punishment' / Gill McIvor -- Women in prison / Nancy Loucks -- Women's release from prison: the case for change / Christine Wilkinson -- Black women and the criminal justice system / Ruth Chigwada-Bailey -- Risk, dangerousness and female offenders / Hazel Kemshall -- The 'criminogenic' needs of women offenders / Carol Hedderman -- Women, drug use and the criminal justice system / Margaret S. Malloch -- Working with girls and young women / Susan Batchelor and Michele Burman.
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