A growing body of scholarship faults existing risk/needs assessment models for neglecting
the risk factors most relevant to women offenders. In response, a series of gender …

The purpose of this article is to review the literature on women as perpetrators of violence in
their intimate relationships (ie, domestically violent women) and summarize the scant …

Offending Women is an eye-opening journey into the lived reality of prison for women in the
United States today. Lynne Haney looks at incarcerated mothers, housed together with their …

Since the 1980s, when the War on Drugs kicked into high gear and prison populations
soared, the increase in women's rate of incarceration has steadily outpaced that of men. As …

This book provides an up-to-date, accessible introduction to the relationship between
families, prisons and penal policies in the United Kingdom. It explores current debates in …

After decades of the American “war on drugs” and relentless prison expansion, political
officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising …

With evidence comprising three years of ethnographic research in child support courts and
125 in-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated fathers, the author shows how criminal …

Risk assessment and classification systems for women have been largely derived from male-
based systems. As a result, many of the needs unique to women are not formally assessed …

Although Black mothers are disproportionately represented among formerly incarcerated
mothers in the United States, existing research has largely neglected to document the …

This article reviews the evidence regarding young women's involvement in violent crime
and, drawing on recent research carried out in HMPYOI Cornton Vale in Scotland, provides …