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Employment Needs, Interests, and Programming for Women Offenders
Publication year:
2005
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The "aim of the present study [is] to provide a detailed description of current employment programs and services available to women offenders and to examine relevant aspects of women's employment history, needs, and interests" (p. i). Sections following an executive summary are: employment needs, interests, and programming for women offenders; method; results according to risk and need profiles, employment needs and history, offender institutional employment and interests, staff beliefs and attitudes regarding institutional employment programming, community (e.g., employment, interests, and beliefs), beliefs regarding women offenders' occupational abilities, relationships, families and social support, employment services/programs in the community, focus on Community Employment Centres, links, communication, and standardization across services areas, beliefs regarding importance, advantage, and barriers to employment, advantages and disadvantages of employment, and suggestions for the future of employment programming for women; conclusions and recommendations; and limitation and future directions.