Praise for Working with Female Offenders "Encyclopedic in scope and full of very relevant work drawn from the fields of biology, psychology, criminology, and co

The number of women prisoners has been growing rapidly during recent years and in many places has more than doubled in the past decade, significantly outstrippi

The number of female offenders in the United States is skyrocketing. Our "tough on crime" approach puts a female offender behind bars, but doesn't consider the

Few empirical studies have focused on women in prison. In the last few years, though, a number of studies have demonstrated that there are fundamental differenc

Though many more women offenders are supervised in the community than in custody, much less is known about their needs and effective approaches to their supervi