Classification of Women Offenders in State Correctional Facilities: A Handbookfor Practitioners

摘要

As the decade of the 1990s progresses and correctional systems are confrontingever-growing populations, increasing has been focused on women offenders. Women are a rapidly growing segment of the incarcerated population. Their numbers are increasing at a rate that far exceeds even the staggering growth of male populations. even beyond their growth in numbers, however, women offenders have been claiming the attention of correctional administrators as result of aggressive and successful litigation on the issue of parity of services and as a result of the advocacy on behalf of women offenders emerging within correctional agencies. In response to this growing focus on the incarcerated woman, the National Institute of Corrections sponsored a review of current classification practices as they affect women and the design of a 'developmental model' to provide guidance to agencies interested in reviewing their classification practices for women.