Female offenders : critical perspectives and effective interventions / edited by Ruth T. Zaplin.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Zaplin, Ruth T.
Language:English
Published: Gaithersburg, Md. : Aspen Publishers, 1998.
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Physical Description:xxiv, 398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Nature of female offending : patterns and explanation / Darrell Steffensmeier and Emilie Allan
  • Overview of delinquent girls : how theory and practice have failed and the need for innovative changes / Joanne Belknap and Kristi Holsinger
  • Female offenders : a systems perspective / Ruth T. Zaplin
  • Social treatment : a multiphased event / Frank B.W. Hawkinshire
  • Relational theory of women's psychological development : implications for the criminal justice system / Stephanie S. Covington
  • Power-belief theory : female criminality and the dynamics of oppression / Joyce Dougherty
  • Treatment of female offenders : individual psychotherapy in systems-theory perspective / Bernard Weitzman
  • Institutional classification of females : problems and some proposals for reform / Tim Brennan
  • Mental health issues, treatment, and the female offender / Susan Baugh, Susan Bull, and Kathy Cohen
  • Female offenders and childhood maltreatment : understanding the connections / Joyce Dougherty
  • Surviving violence : women's strength through connection / Carolyn Swift
  • Needs assessment and treatment goal planning / Lorry Bradley
  • Integrated systems approach to program development and implementation / Angela Velasquez
  • Self-taught empowerment and pride : a multimodal/dual empowerment approach to confronting the problems of African American female offenders / Zelma Weston Henriques and Dolores Jones-Brown
  • Programs that work : mothers / Ruth T. Zaplin and Joyce Dougherty
  • Programs that work : working with prostitutes / Lorry Bradley and Lori Moschella
  • Evaluation of programs for female offenders / Kathleen Kendall.