Women in prison have attracted comparatively little attention, both in terms of public interest and academic research. Their contribution to the total prison population is small, and in Europe ranges from a minimum of 2.4 per cent in Northern Ireland, to
Women comprise just 5% of the total UK prison population therefore it is argued that the specific needs of imprisoned women are being overlooked in the development of policy. As a result, there is a view that women are being disadvantaged in terms of the delivery of services within the ...
Panik House's disc of CHAINED HEAT is its first uncut DVD release in the states (the Showtime cable version ran only 88 minutes and other versions have run somewhere in between; Anchor Bay UK also released CHAINED HEAT in a set with the other two films seen in Panik House's set, but...
International Centre for Prison Studies. 2002. “World Prison Brief.” London, England: International Centre for Prison Studies, Retrieved August 2002 (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/ world_brief.html) Lilly, J. Robert, Francis T. Cullen an...
alcohol;women;prison;brief alcohol interventions;ASBI;ABI 1. Introduction Currently, women make up only 5% of the prison population, with 3604 women in prison in the UK compared to 74,981 men [1]. Risky drinking is highly prevalent in both the male and female prison population, however, si...
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Background Rates of self-harm are high among women in prison in the UK. This is the first study to compare the views and attitudes of prison staff and women prisoners and to look at the effects of these attitudes on prisoner/staff relationships.Aims To explore understanding of self-harm amo...
Six months after leaving prison, women are half as likely as men to be employed. People without work are more likely to reoffend. Sky's Jason Farrell visited one women's prison near Manchester that is trying to do something about this.
in the minds of the women prisoners, the probable instances of discrimination and racism within the UK prison system, the rupture in family relationships, the viability of the rehabilitation schemes designed by the prison system, and the predicament of the women deported after their prison terms. ...
The women felt at ease in the courtyard, with the familiarity that unites people in a boarding school or a prison. That sort of confidence, however, sprang not so much from living under a common roof as from shared knowledge of the harsh lives they lived: though unaware of it, they felt...