The most practical discussion of the rehabilitation of girls and women in conflict with the law in the correctional arena

What Works with Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law is the leading examination of evidence-based practice in the field of gender-responsive corrections. Adopting an international and intersectional approach, the distinguished authors seek to collect the best available data and thinking on what works with girls and women and apply it to the real-world problems facing correctional systems today.

As part of its contextual and rich approach to the subject, What Works with girls and women in conflict with the law, covers a broad variety of topics, ranging from theories of female involvement in crime, security classification and risk assessment, evidence-based treatment and supervision approaches, special populations (such as Indigenous women), to legal/policy developments in the field of gender-responsive corrections.

Perfect for students and practitioners in the field of psychology, criminology, social work, criminal justice, and corrections, this is the only reference of its kind to focus on the practical applications of the latest theory.

Shelley L. Brown, PhD, Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Shelley Brown is an Associate Professor of forensic psychology within the Department of Psychology, Ottawa, Canada. She completed her PhD in 2002 at Queens University with a focus on dynamic risk assessment among adult men under correctional supervision in the community. Following a 10-year research career with Correctional Service of Canada, she joined Carleton University in 2006. Since arriving at Carleton, Shelleys program of research has shifted focus, and now concentrates on improving gender responsive services for girls and women in the criminal justice system using a mix of quantitative and qualitative approaches. In 2006, Shelley co-authored,The assessment and treatment of women offenders: An integrated approach. Since then, she has maintained an active program of research designed to improve the lives of girls and women who come in contact with the criminal justice system. Shelley has also received teaching achievement and mentoring awards since arriving at Carleton.

Loraine Gelsthorpe, PhD, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Loraine Gelsthorpe is Director of the Institute of Criminology and (full) Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She completed her PhD at Cambridge in 1985; she had post-doctoral positions at the University of Lancaster, UCNW (Bangor), and at the LSE, before returning to the Institute as a Senior Research Associate in 1991. She gained a tenured position as a University Lecturer in 1994. Loraine is also Director of the Cambridge ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership (across the Social Sciences in the University), and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, an interdisciplinary initiative across the University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (for distinguished contributions to criminology& criminal justice) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (for notable contributions to the social sciences). She was President of the British Society of Criminology 20112015, and in 2021 was awarded the European Society of Criminology Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding contribution to European Criminology. Her work revolves around women, crime, and criminal justice; human trafficking; criminology, sentencing and the penal system.

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction
Shelley L Brown& Loraine Gelsthorpe

Part I: Theories of Female Offending

1 Evolution, Evidence, and Impact of the Feminist Pathways Perspective
Kristy Holtfreter, Natasha Pusch,& Katelyn A. Golladay

2 Developmental and Life Course Perspectives on Female Offending
Alex R. Piquero, Nicole Leeper Piquero,& Chelsey Narvey

3 Extending Learning, Control, and Strain Perspectives to Explain the Gender Gap and Female Offending
Lisa Broidy& Megan Nyce

4 Understanding Female Crime and Antisocial Bheaviour through a Biosocial and Evolutionary Lens
Shelley L. Brown and Colleen Robb

Part 2: Assessment and Security Classification

5 Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law: A Review of Risk and Strength Factors
Terri Scott, Megan Wagstaff& Cassie Conley

6 Assessment, Security Classification and Humane Prison Environments
Kelly Blanchette and Renee Gobeil

7 Advances in Female Offender Risk Assessment
Lindsay Belisle, Jaclyn Parker Keen, tereza Trejbalova, Bridget Kelly and Emily J. Salisbury

8 Can 'Gender Neutral' Risk Assessment Tools be used with Women and Girls? If so, How?
Mark Olver and Keira C. Stockdale

9 Validating Supplementary Needs Assessment Tools for Use with Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law
Jala Rizeq and Tracey Skilling

Part 3: Exploring the Meaning of Gender Responsive Tenets

10 Defining and Evaluating Gender-Responsive Treatment
Patricia Van Voorhis

11 Expanding Opportunities for Justice-Involved Women: Transforming the What and How of Rehabilitation
Marilyn Van Dieten

12 Creating a Trauma-Informed Justice System for Women
Stephanie Covington

13 Taking Note of Carceral Space in Family Programmes for Incarcerated Women
Caroline Lanskey

14 Responding to Problem Substance Use: Deconstructing Structures and Politicizing the Personal
Margaret S. Malloch and Maria Fotopoulou

Part Four: Gender Responsive Models in Practice

15 Women, Crime and Justice in Scotland
Gill McIvor

16 A Review of Women-Centered Programming and Research Evidence in the Federal Canadian Context
Chantal Allen and Kailtyn Wardrop, Correctional Service of Canada

17 Women, Crime and Justice in England and Wales
Loraine Gelsthorpe

18 Effective Community Interventions for Justice-Involved girls and Women in the United States
Merry Morash and Kayla M. Hoskins

19 Evidence-Based Community Supervision Models that Work: The Australian Approach
Rosemary Sheehan

Part 5: Working with Special Populations Through a Gender Responsive Lens

20 Evidence Based Practices with Justice-Involved Indigenous Girls and Women
Leticia Gutierrez and Kayla A. Wanamaker

21 Female Offending During Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
Gilly Sharpe

22 Trauma, Mental Health among Justice-Involved Girls and Women
Vivienne de Vogel

23 Personality Disorders and Female Offending
Janet I Warren, Shelley L. Jackson, Elisha R. Agee, Sara B. Millspaugh, Maihan F. Alam

24 Female Perpetrators of Sexual Offenders
Samuel Hales and Theresea Gannon

25 Female Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence
Annette McKeown, Patrick J. Kennedy and Joanne McGrath

Part Six: Legal and Policy Implications

26 What Works? Beyond Interventions and Programmes
Loraine Gelsthorpe

27 The Impact of Law and Correctional Policies on Women Incarcerated in the US
Andie Moss and Julie Abbate

28 Successful Resettlement or Setting Women up to Fail? Policy and Practice for Women Released from Prison in England and Wales
Katy Swaine Williams and Jenny Earle

Conclusion
Loraine Gelsthorpe and Shelley L. Brown