Results of a National Survey of Wardens in Women's Prisons: The Case for Gender Specific Treatment

Autor:	Katherine van Wormer, Laura E Kaplan
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Gender Studies Gender specific treatment media_common.quotation_subject Gender studies Prison Specific model Criminology Imprisonment Psychology General Psychology Criminal justice media_common
Zdroj:	Women & Therapy. 29:133-151
ISSN:	1541-0315 0270-3149
DOI:	10.1300/j015v29n01_07
Popis:	The pathways that lead a female child into ultimate criminality and imprisonment are unique to the female gender. Yet the criminal justice system today, partly due to a backlash against the women's movement, is sending women to prison in unprecedented numbers. Women's prisons today are constructed and operated according to a model developed to contain antisocial males. This article summarizes findings from a national survey of women's prison administrators to argue the case for a gender specific model for the treatment of female offenders
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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