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The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice
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In this article, women and the criminal justice system with a focus on three major areas: (1) female offenders and their treatment by criminal justice systems; (2) female victims of crime; and (3) female employees of the agencies of the criminal system.Abstract:
This text covers women and the criminal justice system with a focus on three major areas: (1) female offenders and their treatment by the criminal justice system; (2) female victims of crime; and (3) female employees of the agencies of the criminal justice system. This is the only text to emphasize all three aspects.read more
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The Gendered Nature of Risk Factors for Delinquency
Joanne Belknap,Kristi Holsinger +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the contribution of feminist pathways to better understand the risks associated with and improve the responses to girls' and boys' delinquency by examining demographic, abuse, family, school and peer, and self-esteem variables.
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GENDERED PATHWAYS A Quantitative Investigation of Women Probationers' Paths to Incarceration
TL;DR: The authors used interview and survey data to identify gender-responsive offending pathways and found that women were more likely to report gender responsiveness to gender-related offending pathways compared to men in the interviews and surveys.
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Women’s Risk Factors and Their Contributions to Existing Risk/Needs Assessment: The Current Status of a Gender-Responsive Supplement
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of gender-responsive assessment models were tested for their contributions to widely used gender-neutral risk needs assessments, and subsets of the genderresponsive scales achieved statistically significant contributions to gender neutral models, including parental stress, family support, self-efficacy, educational assets, housing safety, anger/hostility, and current mental health factors.
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Women in Prison: Approaches in the Treatment of Our Most Invisible Population
TL;DR: This article presented a relational model of treatment which incorporates the multiple issues in women's recovery and is based on the integration of three theoretical perspectives -addiction, trauma and women's psychological development.