Women Punishment

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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 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.  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 Content: Cover Women and Punishment Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Foreword About the contributors Part One: Context 1 Introduction: Women and punishment 2 Gender issues in penal policy and penal theory 3 Rendering women punishable: the making of a penal crisis 4 Youth prostitution policy reform: new discourse, same old story Part Two: Practice 5 A gender-wise prison: opportunities for, and limits to, reform 6 Women-centred: the West Mercia community-based programme for women offenders 7 The Women at Risk programme. 8 Women's imprisonment: cross-national lessonsPart Three: Critique 9 Women's prisons in England: barriers to reform 10 Time to think again about cognitive behavioural programmes 11 Creating choices: reflecting on choices 12 New discourses of justification and reform for women's imprisonment in England References Index.