Unit D.5.4. Female Offender

[Unit B.5.4][Unit D.5.4]

The required readings for this unit are:

Australia	Required Reading(s)

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Canada	Required Reading(s)

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International	Required Reading(s)

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United Kingdom	Required Reading(s)

UK Coid, J., Kahtan, N., Gault, S., & Jarman, B. (2000).

Women admitted to secure forensic psychiatry services: I. Comparison of women and men. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 11(2), 275-295. Retrieved December 20, 2002, from Academic Search Premier: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=6396489&db=aph Part I. Compares the diagnostic characteristics and criminal records of female and male psychiatric patients in Great Britain. Annual rate of male admissions to the secure specialist service; Evidence of more histories of fire-setting behavior among women; Tendency of women to receive a primary diagnosis of personality disorder.

UK Kenney-Herbert, J. (1999). The health care of women

prisoners in England and Wales: A literature review. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 38(1), 54-66. Retrieved December 31, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=3254122&db=aph

 

United States	Required Reading(s)

US Vigilante, K. C., Flynn, M. M., Affleck, P. C., Stunkle, J. C.,

Merriman, N. A., Flanigan, T. P., Mitty, J. A., & Rich, J. D. (1999). Reduction in recidivism of incarcerated women through primary care, peer counseling, and discharge planning. Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine, 8(3), 409-415. Retrieved December 19, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5626914&db=aph Note: This article presents information on the Women's HIV/Prison Prevention Program (WHPPP) of the Rhode Island state prison, designed to reduce reincarceration and HIV infection. Creation of the WHPPP in 1992; Major outcome objectives of the program; Demographics, risk behavior and risk perception in the WHPPP.

 

Databases
For the full text article online, sleuth the 'University of Calgary/ Library/ Article Indexes':

Directions:

• Select - Indexes and abstracts with links to full text articles
• Select - Academic Search Premier or Expanded Academic ASAP
• Select - Connect
• Fill in User ID and Pin
• Fill in search words: female and offender

 

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Unit D.5.4. Female Offender

[Unit B.5.4][Unit D.5.4]

The 'recommended only' readings for this unit are the following:

Australia	Recommended Reading(s)

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Canada	Recommended Reading(s)

MacDonald, M. (2001). Creating choices, changing lives:

The transformation of women's corrections in Canada. Corrections Today, 63(1), 70-74. Retrieved July 22, 2002 from ProQuest database. "In 1989, a task force for federally sentenced women in Canada was assembled to make ecommendations on how to improve the situation facing female offenders. Its report, Creating Choices, was submitted in April of the following year and, in September 1990, the federal government accepted the recommendations - to close the Prison for Women (which was Canada's only prison for women serving sentences of more than two years), and in its stead, build four regional prisons, plus an Aboriginal healing lodge, based on a community living environment" (MacDonald, 2001, p. 70).

 

International	Recommended Reading(s)

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United Kingdom	Recommended Reading(s)

Byrt, R., Lomas, C., Gardinar, G., & Lewis, D. (2001).

Working with women in secure environments. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services, 39(9), 42-50.Retrieved July 22, 2002 from Proquest database. In this article, developments in secure (i.e., locked) mental health services for women in the United Kingdom will be reviewed, with particular reference to Arnold Lodge, a 56-bed, medium secure unit, located in Leicester, a multicultural city in central England (Byrt, Lomas, Gardinar, & Lewis, 2001).

 

United States	Recommended Reading(s)

DeBell, J. (2001). The female offender: Different...not

difficult. Corrections Today, 63(1), 56-60. Retrieved July 22, 2002 from Proquest database. "Female offenders are, at the very least, extremely challenging to manage. It is crucial that correctional staff develop and foster a basic understanding of the differences between men and women" (DeBell, 2001, p. 56). As an instructor for a myriad of both law enforcement and corrections academy classes for the past nine years, the old adage, "An inmate, is an inmate, is an inmate" has been a staple of the recruit curriculum. With the development of a new effective, task-oriented curriculum titled "Working With the Female Offender," staff within the Florida Department of Corrections are learning to put this myth to rest (DeBell, 2001, p. 56). "Female offenders are, at the very least, extremely challenging to manage. It is crucial that correctional staff develop and foster a basic understanding of the differences between men and women. A conscious effort to remain professional at all times when dealing with female offenders will ensure staff success. Employees will be taught to think "outside the box," as it relates to female offenders, addressing the issues they bring with them upon incarceration and concentrating on their success in their new environment" (DeBell, 2001, p. 56).

 

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Additional references for this unit can be found in 'forensic references' of the forensic sourcebooks.

• Sleuth 'forensic reference' database for:
  • female- offender

Kent-Wilkinson, A. (2002). Forensic Sourcebooks: Forensic References.

Retrieved May 28, 2002, from the Forensic Education Website: http://www.forensiceducation.com/references

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Video's recommended for this unit are:

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Unit D.5.4. Female Offender

[Unit B.5.4][Unit D.5.4]

The required websites to sleuth for this unit are the following:

Australia	Resources (Web)

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Canada	Resources (Web)

Dell, C.A. & Boe, R. (1998). Adult Female Offenders in

Canada. Recent Trends Research Branch Correctional Service Canada (May 15, 1998). http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/rsrch/briefs/b21/b21e.shtml Note a mean age of 32 for women involved with crime has remained the same from 1994/95 to 1996/97.

Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (1995).

Women's groups welcome review announcement. Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies. Retrieved July 1, 2002, from CAEFS Website: http://www.web.net/~kpate/bwdnr.htm Note this report on review the cases of women imprisoned for defending themselves against abusive partners.

Pate, K. (1994, November). Battered Women's Defence

Committee Update. Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies. Retrieved July 1, 2002, from CAEFS Website: http://www.web.net/~kpate/bwdcom.htm Note the project CAEFS has been involved with since 1990 when the Supreme Courts of Canada ruled in favor on the battered woman's defence in the Lavallee case

 

International	Resources (Web)

Amnesty International report blasts sexual abuse of women

in U.S. prisons (March 4, 1999) http://www.courttv.com/national/1999/0304/amnesty_ctv.html Note the human rights violations against female prisoners.

 

United Kingdom	Resources (Web)

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United States	Resources (Web)

Women in prison medial care

http://abcnews.go.com/onair/Nightline/nl991102.html

 

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For additional websites on this unit, sleuth 'forensic websites' in the forensic sourcebooks.

• female - offender

Kent-Wilkinson, A. (2002). Forensic Sourcebooks: Forensic Websites.

Retrieved May 28, 2002, from the Forensic Education Website: http://www.forensiceducation.com/websites

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