Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Female offending: a theoretical overview / Loraine Gelsthorpe -- Breaking the mould: patterns of female offending / Michele Burman -- From 'a safer to a better way': transformations on penal policy for women / Jacqueline Tombs -- Why are more women being sentenced to custody? / Carol Hedderman -- Living with paradox: community supervision of women offenders / Judith Rumgay -- Service with a smile? women and community 'punishment' / Gill McIvor -- Women in prison / Nancy Loucks -- Women's release from prison: the case for change / Christine Wilkinson -- Black women and the criminal justice system / Ruth Chigwada-Bailey -- Risk, dangerousness and female offenders / Hazel Kemshall -- The 'criminogenic' needs of women offenders / Carol Hedderman -- Women, drug use and the criminal justice system / Margaret S. Malloch -- Working with girls and young women / Susan Batchelor and Michele Burman.

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