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Ladies of Lost Causes - Rehabilitation, Women Offenders and the Voluntary Sector (Hardcover)
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Ladies of Lost Causes - Rehabilitation, Women Offenders and the Voluntary Sector (Hardcover)
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In this highly original study, Judith Rumgay evaluates the
development of a residential programme for female offenders run by
the Griffins Society. The text is unique in that it documents the
radical contribution of women philanthropists and practitioners to
offender rehabilitation. Drawing on archival, interview, and
observational sources, the author describes, analyses, and
evaluates a distinctive model of care provision by volunteer,
upper-middle-class women that has since been overtaken by the
professionalization of the voluntary sector. Rumgay illuminates the
pathways of women into, and out of, serious crime; explores the
dynamics of rehabilitative practice in the volatile setting of
residential care; and also analyses the qualities of successful
rehabilitative practice. Subsequently, the author suggests
rehabilitative success is more appropriately understood within a
paradigm of natural desistance from crime, instead of the more
common appeal to a medical model of treatment. Moreover, this style
of rehabilitative practice is inextricable from the broader social
outlook of a dedicated group of philanthropic women, whose critics
derided them with epithets such as 'Lady Bountiful'.
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