Women in prisons represent a unique and complex population throughout the world. The authors have provided psychiatric consultation, diagnoses and treatment for hundreds of these women over the past three decades in the United States. We have identified five factors that can precipitate a cascade of consequences that result in women coming to prison. Sometimes it is a one-time experience; other times, women repeat offenses, ending up in prisons for longer periods. These factors include 1) being sexually abused and/or prostituted as a child, 2) alcohol abuse, 3) legal and illegal psychoactive substances use and abuse, 4) conspiracy with an intimate partner, and 5) mental disorders. We provide quotes from some of the many women interviewed in...
The growth in prison populations is a world-wide phenomenon, and within the overall growth rate, man...
With increasing rates of female imprisonment, and female prisoner re-imprisonment rates of 33% for f...
Chapter 1 comprises a review of the literature on the mental health of women prisoners. Historically...
More than one million women are currently under the supervision of the criminal justice system in th...
Two hundred and one randomly selected female inmates incarcerated at a municipal jail were interview...
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited in Intern...
Before being locked up, incarcerated women are more marginalized, have higher rates of mental illnes...
In one of the quietest but most significant social phenomena of our time, national statistics indica...
Worldwide, incarcerated women are known to suffer adverse experiences that might increase the risk o...
“They break us out there and then more in here. And they don\u27t do anything to build us back up.” ...
Trauma is a persistent feature in the lives of incarcerated women. Seven of them describe how they c...
peer-reviewedPurpose – The rate of female committals to prison has grown rapidly in recent years. Wo...
PURPOSE The rate of female committals to prison has grown rapidly in recent years. Women in prison ...
Purpose:- Large numbers of women in prison report significant emotional and mental health problems, ...
This study examined ways in which victimization may contribute to criminal involvement among incarce...
The growth in prison populations is a world-wide phenomenon, and within the overall growth rate, man...
With increasing rates of female imprisonment, and female prisoner re-imprisonment rates of 33% for f...
Chapter 1 comprises a review of the literature on the mental health of women prisoners. Historically...
More than one million women are currently under the supervision of the criminal justice system in th...
Two hundred and one randomly selected female inmates incarcerated at a municipal jail were interview...
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited in Intern...
Before being locked up, incarcerated women are more marginalized, have higher rates of mental illnes...
In one of the quietest but most significant social phenomena of our time, national statistics indica...
Worldwide, incarcerated women are known to suffer adverse experiences that might increase the risk o...
“They break us out there and then more in here. And they don\u27t do anything to build us back up.” ...
Trauma is a persistent feature in the lives of incarcerated women. Seven of them describe how they c...
peer-reviewedPurpose – The rate of female committals to prison has grown rapidly in recent years. Wo...
PURPOSE The rate of female committals to prison has grown rapidly in recent years. Women in prison ...
Purpose:- Large numbers of women in prison report significant emotional and mental health problems, ...
This study examined ways in which victimization may contribute to criminal involvement among incarce...
The growth in prison populations is a world-wide phenomenon, and within the overall growth rate, man...
With increasing rates of female imprisonment, and female prisoner re-imprisonment rates of 33% for f...
Chapter 1 comprises a review of the literature on the mental health of women prisoners. Historically...