This insightful book focuses on developments since the publication in 2007 of the Corston Report into women and criminal justice. While some of its recommendations were accepted by government, actual policy has restricted the scale and scope of change.
The challenges of working with women in the current climate of change and uncertainty are also explored, seeking to translate lessons from good practice to policy development and recommending future directions resulting from the coalition government's Transforming Rehabilitation plans. This timely analysis engages with wide-ranging considerations for policy makers, providers and practitioners of services and interventions for women who offend, and questions whether women should be treated differently in the criminal justice system.
Corston and beyond ~ Jill Annison and Jo Brayford;
Part One: Context;
Transforming Rehabilitation: implications for women ~ Jill Annison, Jo Brayford and John Deering;
The context: women as lawbreakers ~ Loraine Gelsthorpe and Serena Wright;
A comparison: criminalised women in Scotland ~ Michele Burman, Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor;
Part Two: Reviews of current practice;
Probation practice with women offenders in Wales ~ Kate Asher and Jill Annison;
Youth justice practice with girls ~ Becky Shepherd;
Women's Centres ~ Leeanne Plechowicz;
Older Women Prisoners and The Rubies Project ~ Jill Annison and Alma Hageman;
Gendered dynamics of mentoring ~ Gillian Buck, Mary Corcoran and Anne Worrall;
`Serious therapy' for serious female offenders: the democratic therapeutic community at HMP Send ~ Alisa Stevens
Part Three: Towards best practice;
Breaking the cycle for women through equality not difference ~ Martina Feilzer and Kate Williams;
`A very high price to pay?': Transforming Rehabilitation and short prison sentences for women ~ Julie Trebilcock and Anita Dockley;
The role of the media in women's penal reform ~ Gemma Birkett;
Conclusions ~ Jill Annison, Jo Brayford and John Deering.
