The Wiley Handbook on What Works with Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law The most practical discussion of the rehabilitation of girls and women in conflict with the law in the correctional arena
What Works with Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law is the leading examination of evidence-based practice in the field of gender-responsive corrections. Adopting an international and intersectional approach, the distinguished authors seek to collect the best available data and thinking on what works with girls and women and apply it to the real-world problems facing correctional systems today.
As part of its contextual and rich approach to the subject, What Works with girls and women in conflict with the law, covers a broad variety of topics, ranging from theories of female involvement in crime, security classification and risk assessment, evidence-based treatment and supervision approaches, special populations (such as Indigenous women), to legal/policy developments in the field of gender-responsive corrections.
Perfect for students and practitioners in the field of psychology, criminology, social work, criminal justice, and corrections, this is the only reference of its kind to focus on the practical applications of the latest theory.
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Contributors |
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Introduction |
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Part I Theories of Female Offending |
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1 Evolution, Evidence, and Impact of the Feminist Pathways Perspective |
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2 Developmental and Life Course Perspectives on Female Offending |
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3 Extending Learning, Control, and Strain Perspectives to Explain the Gender Gap and Female Offending |
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4 Understanding Female Crime and Antisocial Behavior through a Biosocial and Evolutionary Lens |
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Part II Assessment and Security Classification |
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5 Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law: A Review of Risk and Strength Factors |
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6 Assessment, Security Classification and Humane Prison Environments |
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7 Advances in Female Risk Assessment |
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8 Can "Gender Neutral" Risk Assessment Tools be used with Women and Girls? If so, How? |
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9 Validating Supplementary Needs Assessment Tools for Use with Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law |
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Part III Exploring the Meaning of Gender Responsive Tenets |
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10 Defining and Evaluating Gender-Responsive Treatment |
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11 Expanding Opportunities for Justice-Involved Women: Transforming the What and How of Rehabilitation |
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12 Creating a Trauma-Informed Justice System for Women |
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13 Taking Note of Carceral Distance in Family Programs for Incarcerated Women |
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14 Responding to Problem Substance Use: Deconstructing Structures and Politicizing the Personal |
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Part IV Gender Responsive Models in Practice |
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15 Women, Crime, and Justice in Scotland |
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16 A Review of Women-Centered Programming and Research Evidence in the Federal Canadian Context |
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17 Women, Crime and Justice in England and Wales |
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18 Effective Community Interventions for Justice-Involved Girls and Women in the United States |
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19 Evidence-Based Community Supervision Models that Work: The Australian Approach |
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Part V Working with Special Populations Through a Gender Responsive Lens |
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20 Evidence Based Practices with Justice-Involved Indigenous Girls and Women |
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21 Female Offending During Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood |
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22 Trauma and Mental Health Among Justice-involved Girls and Women |
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23 Personality Disorders and Female Offending |
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24 Female Perpetrators of Sexual Offences |
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25 Female Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence |
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Part VI Legal and Policy Implications |
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26 What Works? Beyond Interventions and Programs |
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27 The Impact of Law and Correctional Policies on Women Incarcerated in the United States |
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28 Successful Resettlement or Setting Women Up to Fail? Policy and Practice for Women Released from Prison in England and Wales |
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Conclusion |
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Shelley L. Brown, PhD, Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Shelley Brown is an Associate Professor of forensic psychology within the Department of Psychology, Ottawa, Canada. She completed her PhD in 2002 at Queens University with a focus on dynamic risk assessment among adult men under correctional supervision in the community. Following a 10-year research career with Correctional Service of Canada, she joined Carleton University in 2006. Since arriving at Carleton, Shelleys program of research has shifted focus, and now concentrates on improving gender responsive services for girls and women in the criminal justice system using a mix of quantitative and qualitative approaches. In 2006, Shelley co-authored, The assessment and treatment of women offenders: An integrated approach. Since then, she has maintained an active program of research designed to improve the lives of girls and women who come in contact with the criminal justice system. Shelley has also received teaching achievement and mentoring awards since arriving at Carleton.
Loraine Gelsthorpe, PhD, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Loraine Gelsthorpe is Director of the Institute of Criminology and (full) Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She completed her PhD at Cambridge in 1985; she had post-doctoral positions at the University of Lancaster, UCNW (Bangor), and at the LSE, before returning to the Institute as a Senior Research Associate in 1991. She gained a tenured position as a University Lecturer in 1994. Loraine is also Director of the Cambridge ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership (across the Social Sciences in the University), and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, an interdisciplinary initiative across the University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (for distinguished contributions to criminology & criminal justice) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (for notable contributions to the social sciences). She was President of the British Society of Criminology 20112015, and in 2021 was awarded the European Society of Criminology Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding contribution to European Criminology. Her work revolves around women, crime, and criminal justice; human trafficking; criminology, sentencing and the penal system.