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Taking Risks: Incorporating Gender and Culture into the Classification and Assessment of Federally Sentenced Women in Canada

Publication year: 2001 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The "complex theoretical, legal, methodological and practical issues involved in classification and assessment processes" regarding female offenders in federal prisons are examined (p. vii). The following sections are contained in this report: executive summary; introduction; literature review highlights; classification in Canada and federally sentenced women; federally sentenced women's facilities -- institutional visits and consultants; non-institutional consultations; other issues; unresolved issues -- considerations for developing an alternative; conclusions; and Workshop on Gender Diversity and Risk (appendix).
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