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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: McIvor, Gill, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : New York, N.Y. : J. Kingsley, ©2004.
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.