Women in Prison (1)
01 January 1991
Women in Prison
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Carlen, P. (1990) Alternatives to Womens Imprisonment Open University Press.
Overview of custodial and non-custodial penalties for women; innovations in
other countries; the impediments to reducing the female prison population;
strategies for the abolition of women's imprisonment. Worrall, A. (1990)
Offending Women Routledge. Examination of the different treatment female
offenders experience at the hands of courts and welfare agencies; the nature of
categorization procedures; the inappropriate nature of the solutions offered to
women's ill-defined problems.
Statewatch no.1 March/April 1991