Résumé
The symposium brought together more than 300 key policymakers from criminal justice systems across the country to discuss the issues women offenders pose for the criminal justice system. These issues include critical decision-making across the criminal justice system, from developing appropriate sentencing options to supervision strategies and services for women offenders.
Contenu
Building the case--why focus on women offenders?-- Women's prison reform--past, present, future -- Women's pathways to criminality -- Effective interventions--looking at gender responsive programming -- Creating systems to support women's development (5 breakouts covering employment, health issues, battering, caring for the children, and using the community) -- Women offenders -- Maryland's targeted response -- Systemwide responses -- Improving systems' responses (5 breakouts covering working across systems within a state, working across county and local systems, sexual misconduct, what works for women offenders, and restorative justice) -- Paint a picture of a different future.