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COUNTERBLAST: Women and Criminal Justice: Saying it Again, Again and Again
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This article is published in Howard Journal of Criminal Justice.The article was published on 2006-09-01. It has received 17 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Theory of criminal justice & Criminal justice.read more
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Provision for Women Offenders in the Community1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a recent review of provision for women offenders (Gelsthorpe, Sharpe and Roberts 2007) and recommendations for future developments.
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Women, resettlement and desistance
TL;DR: This paper conducted interviews with women leaving prison in Victoria, Australia and found that women had mixed experiences and views of accessing services and supports following release, though experiences of parole supervision by community corrections officers were often positive, especially if women felt valued and supported by workers who demonstrated genuine concern.
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‘What works’ with women offenders: The past 30 years:
Anne Worrall,Loraine Gelsthorpe +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the development of ideas about working with women offenders over the past 30 years is reviewed and an overview of articles appearing in Probation Journal related to women offenders is provided.
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A critical account of a ‘creeping neo-abolitionism’: Regulating prostitution in England and Wales:
Jane Scoular,Anna Carline +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for a more productive use of the criminal law that complements rather than eclipses the wider social justice concerns in this arena, in order to highlight the problems that emerge when the complexities of commercial sexual exchange are reduced into a binary of "victims and victimizers" to be saved or corrected by criminal justice sanctioned initiatives.
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The Arts and Prisoners: Experiences of Creative Rehabilitation
Briege Nugent,Nancy Loucks +1 more
TL;DR: Findings from an ongoing evaluation of arts programmes from Artlink Central taking place in Cornton Vale, which is Scotland's main prison for women, are presented.
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Women's imprisonment in England and Wales A penal paradox
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that women who commit crime, including women in prison, tend not to commit serious crime, and continue to be drawn from those who experience economic and social deprivation.
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The reduction of women’s imprisonment in England and Wales Will the reform of short prison sentences help?
TL;DR: The Women Offending Reduction Programme (WOP) as discussed by the authors was established to co-ordinate cross-government initiatives that target women offenders and reduce women's offending in the UK and Ireland.
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Women Behind Bars: Explanations and Implications
Jo Deakin,Jonathan Spencer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore some possible explanations for the growth in female imprisonment set within the framework of effective practice with a particular emphasis on the actuarial approach to managing offenders.
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Women Behind Bars: Explanations and Implications
Jo Deakin,Jonathan Spencer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore some possible explanations for the growth in female imprisonment set within the framework of effective practice with a particular emphasis on the actuarial approach to managing offenders.