Though many more women offenders are supervised in the community
than in custody, much less is known about their needs and effective
approaches to their supervision, support and treatment. Whilst
there has been recent attention paid to responding to the needs of
women in prison, negligible attention has been paid to women
exiting prison, or on community based orders, and what is needed to
work with them to reduce re-offending or entry into prison.
Contributions to this book challenge policy-makers and corrections
systems to concentrate more on community provision for women
offenders and resist popular calls for more punitive responses to
all offenders, women included. Contributors come from a wide range
of countries including Australia, Canada, UK and USA. They argue
that the criminogenic lens applied to women s offending must be
gender-responsive if systems are to be successful at addressing the
disadvantage and risk associated with offending behaviour.
Working With Women Offenders in the Community builds on ideas
presented in the editors previous book, What Works With Women
Offenders (2007), extending the focus particularly on women
offenders in the community rather than in prison. This book
concentrates on women who have committed criminal offences and who
may have been placed on probation or other community based court
orders or who have been released from prison on parole. It
discusses the work done by professional workers including probation
officers, community corrections officers and specialist case
managers in areas such as drug treatment, housing, mental health or
employment programmes.
This book will be of interest to professional probation officers,
case managers, drug treatment workers and others who work with
women offenders. It will also be essential reading for students of
criminology, social work, psychology, sociology and other
disciplines who have an interest in women offenders.
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