Add to ORKGInmate mothers are not only seen to offend against society, but also against their role as mothers. They bear often public and private scorn for the dislocation their incarceration brings to their children and families. This paper reports on the Australian component of an international comparative policy study, Incarcerated mothers and children: Impact of prison environments (IMCIPE). This study investigated the impact of the prison environment or institutional ecology on incarcerated mothers and their young children, aged birth to eight years (that is, mothers whose children live with them in custody and mothers who are separated from their children), in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and England. This paper draws on data from polic...
An invited entry contribution to CLINKS growing evidence library covering key issues in criminal jus...
Policies of mass incarceration have resulted in a dramatic increase in the prison population in the ...
In line with international trends, women represent Australia’s fastest growing prison population. Th...
While the IMCIPE study was a comparative international study conducted across two countries, this pa...
In Victoria, Australia the rate of female incarceration has continued to rise in the last decade. Th...
In western countries such as Australia, the U.S. and the U.K., the women’s prison population has inc...
Between 2005 and 2015, the female imprisonment rate in Australia increased by 39% (ABS 2016). Around...
The Western Australian prison system, following trends of other prison systems in the western world,...
Introduction: All countries have female prisoners, many of whom are mothers. In most cases imprisonm...
The central focus of this thesis is on children whose mothers are sent to prison. Both the mothers a...
There are, of course, a number of concerns and difficulties associated with the imprisonment of a pa...
This article is based on research with over 160 First Nations women in prisons in New South Wales, A...
Introduction Female imprisonment has numerous health and social sequelae for both women prisoners an...
This paper examines how the experience of female prison confinement, especially in relation to mothe...
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Background: Children with incarcerated mothers experience adverse health, s...
An invited entry contribution to CLINKS growing evidence library covering key issues in criminal jus...
Policies of mass incarceration have resulted in a dramatic increase in the prison population in the ...
In line with international trends, women represent Australia’s fastest growing prison population. Th...
While the IMCIPE study was a comparative international study conducted across two countries, this pa...
In Victoria, Australia the rate of female incarceration has continued to rise in the last decade. Th...
In western countries such as Australia, the U.S. and the U.K., the women’s prison population has inc...
Between 2005 and 2015, the female imprisonment rate in Australia increased by 39% (ABS 2016). Around...
The Western Australian prison system, following trends of other prison systems in the western world,...
Introduction: All countries have female prisoners, many of whom are mothers. In most cases imprisonm...
The central focus of this thesis is on children whose mothers are sent to prison. Both the mothers a...
There are, of course, a number of concerns and difficulties associated with the imprisonment of a pa...
This article is based on research with over 160 First Nations women in prisons in New South Wales, A...
Introduction Female imprisonment has numerous health and social sequelae for both women prisoners an...
This paper examines how the experience of female prison confinement, especially in relation to mothe...
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Background: Children with incarcerated mothers experience adverse health, s...
An invited entry contribution to CLINKS growing evidence library covering key issues in criminal jus...
Policies of mass incarceration have resulted in a dramatic increase in the prison population in the ...
In line with international trends, women represent Australia’s fastest growing prison population. Th...