Ebook: Women Punishment
Author: Carlen Pat
- Tags: Effect of imprisonment on., Great Britain., Women., Women prisoners., Frauenstrafvollzug, Frau, Strafverfolgung, Großbritannien
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Taylor and Francis
- City: Großbritannien, Hoboken
- Language: English
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In the last decade there has been growing international concern about the increasing numbers of women in prison, the effects that imprisonment has on their children, the realisation that gaoled women have different criminal profiles and rehabilitative needs to male prisoners, and the seeming intractability of the associated problems. In response there has been an overarching policy concern in many countries to Read more...
Abstract: In the last decade there has been growing international concern about the increasing numbers of women in prison, the effects that imprisonment has on their children, the realisation that gaoled women have different criminal profiles and rehabilitative needs to male prisoners, and the seeming intractability of the associated problems. In response there has been an overarching policy concern in many countries to fashion and co-ordinate gender-specific policies towards female offenders which aim both to slow down the rate of their offending and/or imprisonment, and also to engender flexible progr