Women and Punishment

by Alyson Brown

Book Overview

In the last decade there has been growing international concern about the increasing numbers of women in prison, the effects that imprisonment has on their children, the realisation that gaoled women have different criminal profiles and rehabilitative needs to male prisoners, and the seeming intractability of the associated problems. In response there has been an overarching policy concern in many countries to fashion and co-ordinate gender-specific...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903240581
• ISBN13: 9781903240588
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK)
• Length: 280 Pages