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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Female prisoners"”.
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Perceptions of personal risk of HIV infection among female prisoners in Ghana
… of Personal Risk of HIV Infection among Female Prisoners in Ghana. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld; 2021
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Planning for the outside from the inside : female prisoners' experience of pre-release and the construction of a new life
… the prison based resettlement practices of women prisoners and the relation this has to desistence. This research therefore aims to investigate how women in the last three months of a prison sentence plan and prepare for their release. Using data generated from interviews with women prisoners and …
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An Exploration of the College-Educated Female Incarceration Experience
… has been a significant increase in the nation's female incarceration rate. During 2006, the number of women in prison increased by approximately 4.5 %. The increase of female prisoners from 2005 to 2006 was larger than the average growth rate of 2.9% from 2000 through 2005. Women ages 35 to 39 …
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Dangerous women, dangerous times: Women at the Nevada State Prison, 1890-1930
This work examines the treatment Nevada's female prisoners received from Nevada's press, courts, and the Nevada State Prison from 1890 to 1930. It argues that gender perspectives held by Nevada's criminal justice officials caused them to treat female criminals both benevolently and harshly. This …
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Prisoner reentry and reintegration : perspectives of the women involved in Outcare's St John of God Women's Program
… and supporting the successful transition of prisoners into the wider community following release is a challenge that has received increasing attention on the part of both researchers and policymakers alike, especially considering the great costs to the community of crime and incarceration. …
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Flieder, 1945 / Lilac, 2015 : visibility, memory, gender : writing and re-imagining National Socialist atrocity for the stage
… and Meuselwitz and the fate of the – mostly female – prisoners, forced to work in the factories of the arms manufacturer HASAG. The dissertation itself consists of two parts: In the stage play "Flieder, 1945 / Lilac, 2015", I investigate the history and memory of the camps, factories, and the …
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A Qualitative Analysis of the Narratives of Women Imprisoned for Killing in a Prison in Lahore, Pakistan
… a maximum-security male prison that also housed female prisoners in a segregated compound within in Lahore, Pakistan. These women had been remanded in judicial custody or convicted for murder. The results show complex interactions between agency and structural forces that shape women’s pathways …
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Moterų įvykdyti intymaus partnerio nužudymai smurto artimoje aplinkoje kontekste /
… scientific discourse regarding the genesis of female criminal behaviour was rather limited. Thus, the conception of female perpetrated intimate partner homicide, stemming from stereotypical attitudes of "female criminal" who renounced her feminine nature, was no exception. It was only later, as …
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Imprisonment for Debt and Female Financial Failure in the long Eighteenth Century
… own failures, asserting that, to understand female business in this period, it is not merely enough to prove its continued existence. The degree and extent of female business independence must also be determined. To achieve this it focusses on the often underappreciated role that debtors’ …
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Challenging occupational norms : an ethnographic study of female prison officers in a women's prison
Female prison officers have an important role to play in the lives of the imprisoned women they are charged with ‘looking after’. This thesis draws upon 64 days of research, over 35 weeks, over a 12-month period to produce a unique ethnographic study of female frontline officers responsible for …
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‘It’s not just about lock and key, it’s about you as a human being': treating the person before the personality disorder in prison
There continues to be an over-representation of female offenders diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) within UK prisons (Sansone & Sansone, 2009). Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) has shown effectiveness in managing the symptomatology of BPD and has been adapted for a forensic …
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Emotions in prison: an exploration of space, emotion regulation and expression
… of emotions in prison: especially the way prisoners express and regulate their affective states. To collect the data, 25 male and 25 female prisoners were ‘shadowed’, observed and interviewed across two prisons (HMP Send and HMP Ranby). Based on these findings, this thesis describes the …
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Death among a cohort of prisoners in New South Wales Australia — a data linkage study
… times greater in male and 7.8 times greater in female prisoners than the standard population. The excess mortality was substantially raised following release from prison in both men (standardised mortality ratio 4.0 vs 1.7) and women (standardised mortality ratio 8.2 vs 2.1). The period of …
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Bullying amongst prisoners
… bullying behaviours among adult men and women prisoners in relation to personal/descriptive and prison-related behavioural characteristics (e.g. behaviours indicative of non-compliance with the regime), differences in social problem-solving, social self-esteem and assertiveness. The research …
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Gender differences in attitudes towards aggression
… and Haigh (1996)1 amongst a sample of male and female prisoners, and to further assess the hypothesis that high instrumental (and low expressive) scores, would predict high levels of self reported aggression, particularly physical aggression. Both studies relied on self-report data gathered via …
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Networks of Solidarity in Prison Writing: Facilitation of Critical Penal Discourse through the Kingston Prison for Women's Tightwire Publication
From the 1960’s-1990’s, prisoners in both North America and abroad published interconnected journals through the Penal Press. Under this umbrella of publications, the women sentenced to the Kingston Prison for Women (P4W), the only federal penitentiary for female prisoners from 1934-2000, produced …
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Rhetoric of argument in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Mary Barton" and "Ruth"
… with young, working-class dressmakers, female prisoners, and outcasts of society. From an examination of Mary Barton and Ruth, one gains not only an understanding of Gaskell's works as social and historical commentaries but also as artistic constructs in argumentation.
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Evaluating a Brief Sexual Violence Therapy Group for Incarcerated Women
… studies evaluating trauma treatments among female prisoners. Results from 58 incarcerated women showed significant reductions in PTSD, depression, and anxiety/worry symptoms as well as trauma-related cognitions from pre-to post-treatment. Approximately 40-50% of participants who were above …
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Paramilitary imprisonment in Northern Ireland 1969-1999 : resistance, management & release
… Northern Ireland, the treatment of paramilitary prisoners, and in particular the question as to whether and to what extent their political motivation has been recognised by the prison authorities, has been a defining issue for all of the protagonists. Prisoners have asserted their political …
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Životní svět trestankyň v řepském klášteře Kongregace sv. Karla Boromejského (na přelomu 30. a 40. let 20. století)
Cílem bakalářské práce je nastínit každodenní život a osudy trestanek v řepském klášteře Kongregace sv. Karla Boromejského na přelomu třicátých a čtyřicátých let dvacátého století. Práce zahrnuje rozbor trestanek na základě jejich národnosti, sociálního složení, typu zločinu, doby trestu, či …
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