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The Female Inmate: An Examination of Female Inmate Services
Publication year:
2000
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The differing backgrounds of female offenders, the effects of various policy and procedural changes on female offenders, and the occurrence of female prisoner suicide are discussed. Contents include: introduction; methodology; female offenders -- national statistics, differing backgrounds of juveniles and adults, trends in arrests, and health needs; Florida's female offenders; policy problems and remedies for searches and sexual misconduct; Florida's female policies and procedures; sexual abuse in prisons; suicide prevention and procedures; Florida addresses female offender issues; other states' female offender initiatives; and concluding remarks.