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Empowerment Not Entrapment: Providing Opportunities for Incarcerated Women to Move Beyond "Doing Time"
Publication year:
2006
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Incarcerated women's need for effective gender-based programming is explained. This paper discusses: demographic and crime-related characteristics of female offenders; women's prisons -- historical roots of dependency; women's "doing time" experience -- perpetuating dependency; specific needs of female inmates why one should care -- the social investment; recommendations for correctional change; and a call for action.