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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Female offenders"”.
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Restorative Justice Experiences of Juvenile Female Offenders : School, Community, and Home
Problem: The number of delinquent female youth across the country is on the rise (U.S. Department of Justice, 2007). These young women present unique challenges for their schools, communities, and homes. A Midwest suburb created a diversion program, a Youth Justice Initiative, to address the entire …
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An exploration of female offenders' yoga experience in Worcester's correctional centre
… Africa, there has been a lack of research on female offenders' incarceration experience. Research shows that female offenders are a vulnerable group with specific needs that deserve specialised treatment options. Yoga has become very popular as a holistic rehabilitation programme within many …
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An Examination of Career Decision-making in the Context of Female Offenders
Female offenders often have had increased financial difficulties post-release because of lower levels of educational achievement and less job experience. Career programming may prove useful to female offenders by providing guidance with career decisions and strengthening career decision-making …
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The Incarcerated Female Offenders: A Study of Inmates of Julia Tutwiler Prison.
… rampancy of opportunity for study as does the female offender. Increasingly, it is noted that crime by females is on the rise, not only in the "traditional†crimes usually associated with females, such as sexual offenses (usually prostitution) and theft, but also in more serious crimes such …
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A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF BLACK FEMALE OFFENDERS' RECIDIVISM AND THEIR CONTEXTUAL NEEDS
… TITLE: A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF BLACK FEMALE OFFENDERS' RECIDIVISM AND THEIR CONTEXTUAL NEEDS MAJOR PROFESSOR: DR. KATHLEEN CHWALISZ The United States Department of Justice (2009) estimated that one out of every 15 persons within the U.S. population will be confined to jail or prison …
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The level of service inventory and female offenders : addressing issues of reliability and predictive ability
The legitimacy of classifying female offenders in the correctional system has been disputed (especially the application of male-normed risk assessment tools), and yet, there is a need to accurately determine the risk of re-offending and the criminogenic needs of the offender along with general and …
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What You See is What They Want You to See: South African Newspaper Constructions of Female Offenders
Although female-perpetrated crime is a significant minority of overall crime statistics, the media are ready to capitalise on these stories and often resort to sensationalist reporting which results in the misrepresentation of female criminality. Many researchers have highlighted how the media …
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Efficacy of Addiction Treatment in a Correctional Setting for Female Offenders as Measured by the Addiction Severity Index
… causative in that outcome, for incarcerated female addicts. This study also explored the question of which treatment modality seemed most effective-- an education-only group, a comprehensive long-term treatment group, or a waiting-list control group. -- Method. The Addiction Severity Index …
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Female Offenders : A Study of the Characteristics of Self-Esteem, Dependency, and Psychological Androgyny and How These Characteristics Differ in Three Correctional Settings
… was to analyze three specific assumptions about female offenders that appear to be commonly held by professionals in corrections, that they: have low self-esteem, high dependency, and possess a masculine sex-role identity. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationships and differences …
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Respectability and shame: the depiction of coloured, female murderers in the Daily Voice and Son tabloids - 2008 to 2012
… and community; and religion expel the threat female offenders pose to traditional performances of identity. This work is motivated by the shortage of local research on the depiction of female offenders. While international research have developed useful typologies for how female offenders are …
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Violations of Protection Orders: Characteristics of Offenders and Criminal Justice Responses
… justice responses tend to favor women, in that female offenders fare better than men particular in areas of arrest, prosecution, and sentencing. While previous research explores patterns of crime between male and female offenders, focusing primarily on drug or violent crimes such as homicide, …
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Female criminality: toward a clarification of sex-role influence
… for increasing 1975; Hoffman-Bustamante, female 1973; Steffensmeier, 1980; Simon, 1975). Despite the paucity of evidence, the women's movement has been held suspect by the suggestion that changing sex-roles result in increased violence of crime committed by women. The purpose of the …
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An analysis of gender differences in property crime arrest rates
… labor market indicators influence male and female property crime arrest rates differentially. Specifically, none of the labor market indicators were significant for males, while two were significant for females, namely, percent unemployed and percent low wages. This indicates increases in …
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The Future is Female: An Examination of Officer-Offender Relationships Using a Sample of Justice-Involved Women
… while reentering society, the mismanagement of female offenders’ needs, and the lack of equity and care by the justice system to accommodate this growing population. This research intends to use prior research of female offenders, the recent conception of relationship theories, and the …
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Acknowledging offender trauma at intake: a qualitative thematic analysis of Canadian correctional policy
… predominantly on the trauma experiences of female offenders. The current study examined the written policies that guide the Offender Intake Assessment (OIA) process in Canada to assess the extent to which trauma is being considered at point of intake, particularly for male offenders. A …
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Examining gender specific treatment programs in women's prisons
<p>The female offender population has been the fastest growing segment of the correctional population. Historically, victimization and trauma are highly correlated with substance abuse and dependency that are known to have a significant impact on females' pathway toward criminal lifestyle, …
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Treatment Providers' Perceptions of Treatment Effectiveness with Female Juvenile Sex Offenders
… treatment providers working with juvenile sexual offenders perceive treatment effectiveness of current treatment modalities for juvenile female sexual offenders. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics from 2008, juvenile offenders, particularly juvenile female sexual …
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Assessment of Psychopathy in Incarcerated Females
… literature addressing this syndrome among male offenders is quite extensive. In contrast, psychopathy and its underlying factor structure remains understudied among female offenders. Research has suggested marked gender differences in the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and underlying …
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Contextual differences in offense classifications: examining gender, race, and age differences
… and processing account for the growing number of female offenders. This study explores the idea that girls' arrest rates may be increasing because gendered contextual differences are obscured in broad offense categories, meaning that girls and boys may engage in very different behaviors that lead …
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