The series documents the gender implications of changes that have occurred over the last 20 years within the criminal justice system, including expansive law enforcement, stiffer drug sentencing laws and re-entry barriers. The briefing sheets delve into family, socioeconomic and physical and mental health issues that women -- and their families -- face as a result of being incarcerated. Women in the Criminal Justice System contains five sections: Overview; Involvement in Crime; Mothers in Prison; Inadequacies in Prison Services; and Barriers to Reentering the Community
With the rate of women’s incarceration significantly outpacing that of men’s, combined with the fact...
In Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women In Prison, Professor Paula Johnson has written abou...
The growth in prison populations is a world-wide phenomenon, and within the overall growth rate, man...
In 1998, women comprised 22 % (3.2 million) of annual arrests in the U.S. Between 1990 and 1998, the...
One of the fastest growing populations in most correctional systems is female offenders and the impa...
Women in the Criminal Justice System: Tracking the Journey of Females and Crime provides a rare up-t...
Two hundred and one randomly selected female inmates incarcerated at a municipal jail were interview...
Since 1970, there has been a nearly five-fold increase in the number of people in U.S. jails—the app...
The needs of women offenders may be qualitatively different than the needs of male offenders. The “p...
This is the publisher's version, also found here: http://doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.3891As the number...
This paper investigates how the contemporary U.S. penal system impacts women given that female impri...
The unprecedented rise in the US incarceration rate is well-documented. However, research into the h...
And Still We Rise Primero Update on Florida Info Request Clarification No surprise: Better Food is B...
In 2017 there were approximately 1.3 million women in the United States involved in the criminal ju...
Prisons remain one of the social service agencies of last resort for women. Female prisoners are oft...
With the rate of women’s incarceration significantly outpacing that of men’s, combined with the fact...
In Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women In Prison, Professor Paula Johnson has written abou...
The growth in prison populations is a world-wide phenomenon, and within the overall growth rate, man...
In 1998, women comprised 22 % (3.2 million) of annual arrests in the U.S. Between 1990 and 1998, the...
One of the fastest growing populations in most correctional systems is female offenders and the impa...
Women in the Criminal Justice System: Tracking the Journey of Females and Crime provides a rare up-t...
Two hundred and one randomly selected female inmates incarcerated at a municipal jail were interview...
Since 1970, there has been a nearly five-fold increase in the number of people in U.S. jails—the app...
The needs of women offenders may be qualitatively different than the needs of male offenders. The “p...
This is the publisher's version, also found here: http://doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.3891As the number...
This paper investigates how the contemporary U.S. penal system impacts women given that female impri...
The unprecedented rise in the US incarceration rate is well-documented. However, research into the h...
And Still We Rise Primero Update on Florida Info Request Clarification No surprise: Better Food is B...
In 2017 there were approximately 1.3 million women in the United States involved in the criminal ju...
Prisons remain one of the social service agencies of last resort for women. Female prisoners are oft...
With the rate of women’s incarceration significantly outpacing that of men’s, combined with the fact...
In Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women In Prison, Professor Paula Johnson has written abou...
The growth in prison populations is a world-wide phenomenon, and within the overall growth rate, man...