Women Offenders and Reentry Issues
作者:
TaylorSushmaD.,
期刊:
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
(Taylor Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 28,
issue 1
页码: 85-93
ISSN:0279-1072
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1080/02791072.1996.10471717
出版商: Taylor&Francis Group
关键词: incarceration;reentry;substance abuse;treatment;women offenders
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
AbstractWomen parallel men in their profile of physical disease, psychosocial configuration, addictive patterns, and criminal deviance. For women offenders in particular, the prison environment reinforces a victim role that originated in childhood and adolescence. In addition, such settings discourage both emotional expression (exce pt for aggression) and responsibility, since basic needs such as food, lodging, and clothing are provided. Incarcerated women have significant treatment issues, including the lack of social and vocational role definition. psychological depeodence and psychic craving, poorly developed social skills, and conflicts in social, family, and intimate relationships. This article describes the unique psychoeducational and skills-training needs of women offenders as they adjust to community living, and outlines specific treatment interventions that have proven to effect successful patient outcomes. Case studies are used to illustrate the reentry experiences of three women of fenders with distinct back grounds. One example illustrates how a woman who had been involved in the criminal justice system for 24 years overcame her addiction and self-confidence issues. A second case study profiles an offender with three children who had experienced sexual trauma during her childhood and adult years. A third case reports on an African-American woman whose crack-cocaine addiction resulted in the birth of a drug-exposed son. The treatment model tested in all three cases emphasized the practical and often overlooked treatment issues of incarcerated women.
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