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Title Women who offend / edited by Gill McIvor
Published London : Jessica Kingsley, 2004

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  364.374 Mci/Wwo  AVAILABLE
Description 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Research highlights in social work ; 44
Research highlights in social work ; 44
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Female offenders.
Female offenders -- Rehabilitation.
Author McIvor, Gill, 1959-
LC no. 2004004351
ISBN 1843101548 paperback