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Women who offend [electronic resource] / edited by Gill McIvor.

Contributor(s): McIvor, Gill, 1959- | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Research highlights in social work: 44.Publisher: London : New York, N.Y. : J. Kingsley, c2004Description: 302 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Female offenders -- Rehabilitation | Female offendersGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 364.3/74 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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Includes 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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