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Imprint:	London : New York, N.Y. : J. Kingsley, ©2004.
Description:	1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Research highlights in social work ; 44 Research highlights in social work ; 44.
Subject:	Female offenders. Female offenders -- Rehabilitation. Female offenders. Female offenders -- Rehabilitation.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11137064

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Other authors / contributors:	McIvor, Gill, 1959-
ISBN:	1423710118 9781423710110 1846420415 9781846420412 9781843101543 1843101548 128026716X 9781280267161
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	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 professional and research perspectives, discuss important issues concerning women in the criminal justice system, including: the increase in custodial sentences for women; black women in prison; patterns of female offending; drug use and the criminal justice system; the needs of women on release from prison.
Other form:	Print version: Women who offend. London : New York, N.Y. : J. Kingsley, ©2004 1843101548

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.

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