Documents
Report highlights special programs for women and provides contact/resource tools of promising programs around the nation for women in jail.
As part of a series, this paper highlights gender-specific programs and issues with women in jail with mental illness and substance abuse.
This report summarizes current knowledge on the characteristics of women in
correctional settings, the ways in which gender makes a difference in current
criminal justice practice, and multidisciplinary research and theory on women’s
lives that have implications for managing women in the criminal justice system.
It concludes by offering guiding principles and strategies for improving the system’s
response to women offenders.
This article is part of a series that discusses topical issues relating to women in jails and highlights promising programs from around the nation.
An article part of a GAINS series on topical issues relatingto women in jails and highlights promising programs from around the nation.
An article part of a GAINS series on topical issues relating to women in jail and highlighting promising programs from around the nation.
Literature from CSAT grant project staff offers helpful guidelines and ideas for
designing promising programs to help addicted women in the criminal justice system.
First article introducting a GAINS series on Justice-Involved Women with Co-Occurring Disorders and Their Children.
This document is intended to provide diversion program and specialty court staff with an overview of the issues specific to women involved with diversion programs / specialty courts, as well as provide key areas of modification to services to improve and enhance services for women.
In this review from the WHO, a gendered, social model of health is used to investigate critical
determinants of women’s mental health with the overall objective of contributing to
improved, more effective promotion of women’s mental health that is grounded in
research evidence.