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Empowerment Not Entrapment: Providing Opportunities for Incarcerated Women to Move Beyond "Doing Time"

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Empowerment Not Entrapment: Providing Opportunities for Incarcerated Women to Move Beyond "Doing Time"

Zaitzow, Barbara H.

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (San Francisco, CA)

Published 2006. 24 pages.

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Incarcerated women's need for effective gender-based programming is explained. This paper discusses: demographic and crime-related characteristics of female offenders; women's prisons -- historical roots of dependency; women's "doing time" experience -- perpetuating dependency; specific needs of female inmates why one should care -- the social investment; recommendations for correctional change; and a call for action. Accession Number: 021703

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