Women Exiting Prisons, Entering Communities
Author: Russ Immarigeon.
Source: Volume 17, Number 03, September/October 2013 , pp.33-36(4)
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Abstract:
A look at three new resources focusing on women leaving prison: a communications specialist reports on conversations and interviews conducted with women leaving prison; a collection of articles that examine and assess the reintegration and survival struggles of women reentering their communities from Australian criminologists; and a 16-article handbook of critical overviews of topics central to an understanding of the relationship between gender (women in particular) and crime from American criminologists.Keywords: Self-Identity and Reentry Needs; social stigma; gender-responsive programming; minorities; psychotropic drugs
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