The Wiley handbook on what works with girls and women in conflict with the law : a critical review of theory, practice, and policy / edited by Shelley L. Brown, Loraine Gelsthorpe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements viii

Contributors ix

Introduction 1
Shelley L. Brown and Loraine Gelsthorpe

Part I Theories of Female Offending 11

1 Evolution, Evidence, and Impact of the Feminist Pathways Perspective 13
Kristy Holtfreter, Natasha Pusch, and Katelyn A. Golladay

2 Developmental and Life Course Perspectives on Female Offending 24
Alex R. Piquero, Nicole Leeper Piquero, and Chelsey Narvey

3 Extending Learning, Control, and Strain Perspectives to Explain the Gender Gap and Female Offending 34
Lisa Broidy and Megan Nyce

4 Understanding Female Crime and Antisocial Behavior through a Biosocial and Evolutionary Lens 46
Shelley L. Brown and Colleen Robb

Part II Assessment and Security Classification 62

5 Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law: A Review of Risk and Strength Factors 64
Terri Scott, Megan Wagstaff, and Cassandra Conley

6 Assessment, Security Classification and Humane Prison Environments 77
Kelley Blanchette and Renée Gobeil

7 Advances in Female Risk Assessment 89
Linsey Belisle, Jaclyn Parker Keen, Tereza Trejbalová, Bridget Kelly, and Emily J. Salisbury

8 Can “Gender Neutral” Risk Assessment Tools be used with Women and Girls? If so, How? 102
Mark Olver and Keira C. Stockdale

9 Validating Supplementary Needs Assessment Tools for Use with Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law 120
Jala Rizeq and Tracey Skilling

Part III Exploring the Meaning of Gender Responsive Tenets 135

10 Defining and Evaluating Gender-Responsive Treatment 137
Patricia Van Voorhis

11 Expanding Opportunities for Justice-Involved Women: Transforming the What and How of Rehabilitation 157
Marilyn Van Dieten

12 Creating a Trauma-Informed Justice System for Women 172
Stephanie Covington

13 Taking Note of Carceral Distance in Family Programs for Incarcerated Women 185
Caroline Lanskey and Molly Biddle

14 Responding to Problem Substance Use: Deconstructing Structures and Politicizing the Personal 203
Maria Fotopoulou and Margaret S. Malloch

Part IV Gender Responsive Models in Practice 215

15 Women, Crime, and Justice in Scotland 217
Gill McIvor

16 A Review of Women-Centered Programming and Research Evidence in the Federal Canadian Context 229
Chantal Allen and Kaitlyn Wardrop

17 Women, Crime and Justice in England and Wales 244
Loraine Gelsthorpe

18 Effective Community Interventions for Justice-Involved Girls and Women in the United States 256
Merry Morash and Kayla M. Hoskins

19 Evidence-Based Community Supervision Models that Work: The Australian Approach 267
Rosemary Sheehan

Part V Working with Special Populations Through a Gender Responsive Lens 281

20 Evidence Based Practices with Justice-Involved Indigenous Girls and Women 283
Leticia Gutierrez and Kayla A. Wanamaker

21 Female Offending During Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood 295
Gilly Sharpe

22 Trauma and Mental Health Among Justice-involved Girls and Women 307
Vivienne de Vogel

23 Personality Disorders and Female Offending 323
Janet I. Warren, Shelly L. Jackson, Elisha R. Agee, Sara B. Millspaugh, and Maihan F. Alam

24 Female Perpetrators of Sexual Offences 342
Samuel T. Hales and Theresa A. Gannon

25 Female Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence 354
Annette McKeown, Patrick J. Kennedy, and Joanne McGrath

Part VI Legal and Policy Implications 369

26 What Works? Beyond Interventions and Programs 371
Loraine Gelsthrope

27 The Impact of Law and Correctional Policies on Women Incarcerated in the United States 383
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 396
Katy Swaine Williams and Jenny Earle

Conclusion 409
Loraine Gelsthorpe and Shelley L. Brown

Index 415

"What Works with Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law is a book about imperatives, ideas, and initiatives. Imperatives include the need to recognise women and girls as distinct groups of people mired in criminal justice systems. Ideas and initiatives refer to the extant What Works evidence-base germane to girls and women in conflict with the law. Or more accurately, in the words of Gill McIvor (Chapter 15) due to the nascent nature of the evidence-base, the book details What Might Work to divert girls and women from crime, and what might minimize contact with criminal justice systems that at times, damages rehabilitation efforts. The What Works paradigm strives to achieve two over-arching goals. First, to accumulate research that explores the causes, and ultimately the prevention and re-occurrence of criminal conduct. Second, to translate the aforementioned cumulative knowledge base into practice. Those of us who work within the What Works movement germane to girls and women in conflict with the law share similar values with our What Works counterparts; the overall aim of both perspectives is to prevent and reduce the rate at which women and girls come in contact with the justice system by implementing the best available evidence. But we have additional goals. We may also be human rights' advocates; we may draw attention to, and ultimately try to eliminate, the unimaginable reality that many incarcerated women around the world remain shackled during labour and childbirth (see Chapter 27). Similarly, we may also be social change agents who lobby for the abolition of prison systems entirely, or actively challenge laws that impede formally incarcerated women from gaining access to affordable and safe housing, employment opportunities, or reunification efforts with their children. We may investigate the benefits of holistic programs that simultaneously targets trauma, addictions and mental health whilst recognizing that these "individual" or "personal" needs are unequivocally enmeshed within a broader political and social fabric characterized by injustices. Also, we are statistically more likely to address these aforementioned goals as mixed methodologists, embracing both qualitative and quantitative approaches rather than solely relying on quantitative methods"-- Provided by publisher.

About the Author
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, Shelley’s 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 2011–2015, 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.