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Women who offend /
Presenting research that will underpin effective practice with women who offend, this unique and thought-provoking text aims to help professionals meet the needs of this group as well as providing a theoretical resource for policy makers and academics. The authors, coming from a variety of professio...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
New York, N.Y. : J. Kingsley,
©2004.
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| Series: | Research highlights in social work ;
44. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.