Women in Prison
01 March 1991
Carlen P. (1990), Alternatives to Womens Imprisonment, Open University Press: Overview of custodial and non-custodial penalties for women; innovations in other countries; the impediments to reducing the female prison population; strategies for the abolition of women's imprisonment.
Worrall A. (1990), Offending Women, Routledge: Examination of the different treatment female offenders experience at the hands of courts and welfare agencies; the nature of categorization procedures; the inappropriate nature of the solutions offered to women's ill- defined problems.