Working with women offenders in the community / / edited by Rosemary Sheehan, Gill McIvor and Chris Trotter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807234503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cullompton, : Willan, 2010
• ISBN: 1-136-83993-3; 1-136-83994-1; 1-283-04127-8; 9786613041272; 0-203-83295-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SheehanRosemary; McIvorGill <1959->; TrotterChris
• Disciplina: 364.374; 364.374 22
• Soggetti: Female offenders - Rehabilitation; Female offenders - Services for; Community-based corrections; Community-based corrections - Sex differences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of abbreviations; Notes on contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Female offenders in the community: The context of female crime; Chapter 2 Policy developments in England and Wales; Chapter 3 Policy developments in the USA; Chapter 4 Policy developments in Australia; Chapter 5 Coercion and women offenders; Chapter 6 Victimisation and governance: Gender-responsive discourses and correctional practice; Chapter 7 Working with women offenders in the community: A view from England and Wales; Chapter 8 Beyond youth justice: Working with girls and young women who offendChapter 9 Breaking the cycle: Addressing cultural difference in rehabilitation programmes; Chapter 10 Women, drugs and ; community interventions; Chapter 11 Managing risk in the community: How gender matters; Chapter 12 Who cares? Fostering networks and relationships in prison and beyond; Chapter 13 Mentoring; Chapter 14 Community mentoring in the United States: An evaluation of the Rhode Island Women's Mentoring Program; Chapter 15 Maintaining and restoring family for women prisoners and their children; Chapter 16 Connecting to the community: A case study in women's resettlement needs and experiencesChapter 17 Working with women offenders in the community: What works?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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