Gender-Responsive Lessons Learned and Policy Implications for Women in Prison: A Review

Authors

Emily M. Wright, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Patricia Van Voorhis, University of Cincinnati
Emily J. Salisbury, Portland State University
Ashley Bauman, University of Cincinnati

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2012

Publication Title

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volume

39

Issue

12

First Page

1612

Last Page

1632

Abstract

The authors review evidence of gender-responsive factors for women in prisons. Some gender-responsive needs function as risk factors in prison settings and contribute to women’s maladjustment to prison; guided by these findings, the authors outline ways in which prison management, staff members, and programming can better serve female prisoners by being more gender informed. The authors suggest that prisons provide treatment and programming services aimed at reducing women’s criminogenic need factors, use gendered assessments to place women into appropriate interventions and to appropriately plan for women’s successful reentry into the community, and train staff members to be gender responsive.

Comments

© 2012 The Authors. The Publisher version can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0093854812451088

Recommended Citation

Wright, Emily M.; Van Voorhis, Patricia; Salisbury, Emily J.; and Bauman, Ashley, "Gender-Responsive Lessons Learned and Policy Implications for Women in Prison: A Review" (2012). Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications. 37.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/criminaljusticefacpub/37