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Hostage-Taking Incidents Involving Women Inmates: A Profile and Exploratory Investigation
Publication year:
2003
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: "[V]arious aspects of institutional hostage-takings by women inmates" are examined (p. 1). The following sections comprise this report: executive summary; introduction; methods; results according to perpetrator's profile, profile of incidents, words from women hostage-takers, and words from staff involved in hostage-taking incidents; and discussion of main findings and managing hostage-taking incidents. Most often, hostage-takings by female prisoners are "both expressive and instrumental in nature . . . a 'cry for help' or an attempt to get people to listen" (p. ii).