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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Therapeutic Practices and Strategies for Incarcerated Women

Elder, Michelle N. 26 July 2011 (has links)
No description available.
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Correctional Social Work Practice with Female Offenders in a Midwestern State

Smith, Veronica Labrell 01 January 2019 (has links)
A women's prison in the midwestern region of the United States experienced an increase of female inmates. Incarcerated women have reported higher rates of substance abuse problems, prior victimization, and mental illness than their male counterparts. Clinical social workers are often the primary service providers in criminal justice settings. The purpose of this action research project was to explore the challenges faced by social workers in a midwestern state when providing clinical treatment services to female offenders. Postmodern feminist theory and pathways theory provided a framework for understanding the factors related to female offending. The practice-focused research question explored the responses of licensed clinical social workers in a midwestern state regarding identifying the issues and challenges of providing clinical treatment services to female offenders. Data were collected from interviews with 7 local clinical social workers who had experience working with female offenders. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis to explore and organize the data. The study revealed 5 primary themes that included the unique background of female offenders, factors contributing to the incarceration of women, barriers to effective clinical treatment, the nature of prison, and postincarceration needs of female offenders. A possible implication of this study for social change is that specialized and/or population-specific training for clinical social workers may benefit clients in achieving their treatment goals and improve their capacity to successfully readjust upon release from jail or prison.
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The Co-occurrence of Substance Abuse and Trauma Between Community and Incarcerated Samples of Female Victims of Domestic Violence

Gill, Kelley Anne 01 January 2011 (has links)
There is an abundance of literature that examines the comorbidity of domestic violence and trauma as well as domestic violence and alcohol and/or substance abuse in both community and incarcerated samples of women. There is a paucity of research dedicated to discovering if incarcerated women are significantly more likely to have this triad of domestic violence, trauma, and alcohol and/or substance abuse than their community cohorts. The present study examined this under-researched area by analyzing data from 147 women who participated in an extensive, ongoing research project. Women in this sample were from the United States, Russia, Colombia, Spain, Trinidad, and Greece. Results found that the incarcerated women were significantly more likely to suffer more severe domestic violence and were also more likely to abuse substances. No significant differences were found with respect to witnessing domestic violence or childhood sexual abuse, but both groups reported high rates. There were also no significant differences found between the groups on current symptoms of trauma, but both groups obtained scores that hovered just below the clinical cutoff. Although these variables were not statistically significant, they are diagnostic in that they describe experiences related to being a victim of domestic violence and are therefore, areas of potential intervention.
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“In Black and White, I’m A Piece of Trash:” Abuse, Depression, and Women's Pathways to Prison

Adamo Valverde, Alexa 14 December 2016 (has links)
Women’s lived experiences of abuse and depression are examined within the context of gendered and racialized pathways to incarceration among 403 women randomly selected from a diagnostic unit in a state prison. This study utilizes feminist action research and community psychological methods to understand what factors predict incarcerated women’s placement on the mental health caseload and provides quantitative support for the pathways theoretical framework. Findings indicate that, among the sample, the prevalence of abuse experiences prior to incarceration exceeded 90%, prevalence of mental health problems exceeded 70%, and less than 35% were receiving mental health care. Being Caucasian, experiencing depression and suicidal ideation, and serving time for certain types of (non-violent, non-property, and non-drug related) crime (e.g., cruelty to children, prostitution, public order, “technicals,” and others) predicted the placement of women on the mental health caseload. Implications for trauma-informed, anti-racist, gender-responsive policies and interventions are discussed.
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Mothering behind bars: the role of contact maintenance programs on the mothering identity of incarcerated women

Brown, Rebecca R. January 1900 (has links)
Master of Arts / Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work / Lisa A. Melander / The number of women incarcerated within the American penal system has been increasing in recent years. Coinciding with this rise in the incarceration rate for women, there has been increasing concern regarding women parenting behind bars and how incarceration impacts a woman's identity as a mother. As such the purpose of this paper is to examine the connection between participation in contact maintenance programs at the Topeka, Kansas Correctional Facility and their resulting impact on identity work using a sample of 34 incarcerated mothers who participated in this contact maintenance program. Results revealed that through participation in contact maintenance programs incarcerated mothers begin to develop and sustain a more pro- social image of themselves as 'good mothers.' Foundational practices of parenting and the development and sustainment of the mother-child bond are reinforced to facilitate the development of a positive self-image and to lay the groundwork for successful parenting post- release.
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“Doin’ Whatever I Had to Do to Survive”: A Study of Resistance, Agency, and Transformation in the Lives of Incarcerated Women

Sandoval, Carolyn L 03 October 2013 (has links)
The number of women who are incarcerated has increased significantly in the past few decades. Originally designed to manage male offenders, jails and prisons are ill-equipped to address the unique needs of women inmates whose paths to incarceration often include histories of trauma, abuse, and addiction. This qualitative study investigated the lives of 13 women who while incarcerated at Dallas County Jail, participated in an educational program, Resolana. The purpose of this study was to understand the women’s lives prior to incarceration, as well as the impact of the program and changes they experienced, if any, as a result of what they were learning. Data were collected using semi-structured, life history interviews, and by engaging in field observations as a volunteer for each class for a period of one week. An in-depth analysis through a critical lens, using a holistic-content narrative analysis method, was done with one participant’s life history. The findings are presented as an ethnodrama illuminating the cultural, social, personal, and legal systems of oppression that she survived and that contributed to her path to incarceration. Analyzed through a lens of agency and resistance, the findings that emerged from an analysis of all the participant’s life histories reveal that the women’s criminalized actions were often survival responses. The women employed various strategies, both legal and illegal, in response to people or situations involving control, power or domination over their lives. An analysis of the women’s experiences with Resolana through a transformative learning theoretical framework indicates that the women experience transformation in various ways and to varying degrees. The learning environment served as a container in which transformative learning could be cultivated through opportunities for interpersonal and intrapersonal engagement. The results of this study reveal the need for more and targeted advocacy and education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women. The results also indicate that the process and content of Resolana’s programming had a transformative impact on participants, and for some, the transformation was enduring. Finally, the results challenge definitions of criminal behavior in the context interlocking systems of oppression, and encourage thinking about alternatives to incarceration.
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Hard Time and Hard Love: Issues and Challenges of Visitation for Men of Incarcerated Women

January 2011 (has links)
abstract: The United States prison population is rapidly rising. Consequently, more families are losing loved ones to the system. While many researchers have focused on women of incarcerated men and children of incarcerated parents, none have looked at the partners of incarcerated women. This paper explores the issues and challenges of prison visitation for the significant others of women incarcerated at Perryville Prison in Goodyear AZ. It is known that prison visitation is important for supporting and maintaining romantic relationships. It is also beneficial to the prison institution. Visitation assists in social control and high inmate morale; both of which lower the instances of violent acts. However, it has been reported that visitation is a daunting task for the visitors. Many sources of information and data were used for this study; formal and informal interviews with family members and others with prison visitation experience, government websites that contain visitation policies, online forums for family and friends of inmates to discuss their concerns, existing research literature, direct observations, and discussions with scholar experts and prison activists. These resources act as a window to visitation at Perryville. With insights derived from symbolic interactionism and previous research guiding the project, it was found that visitation is a good experience for the significant others, incarcerated women, and Perryville. However, the troubles the significant others have with money, the institution and social support strongly suggest that these men encounter hurdles that make the positive act of visitation at times nearly impossible. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Justice Studies 2011
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[en] IN THE JAIL HOUSE`S WOMB: A STUDY ABOUT FUTURE PROJECTS OF INCARCERATED WOMEN / [pt] NO VENTRE DA CADEIA: UM ESTUDO SOBRE OS PROJETOS FUTUROS DE MULHERES ENCARCERADAS

NEILZA ALVES BARRETO 02 June 2006 (has links)
[pt] O presente trabalho tem com objetivo investigar a existência ou não de projetos futuros em mulheres encarceradas. Partindo do pressuposto de que as instituições totais têm como característica principal a dessubjetivação do sujeito, buscou-se analisar a fala de 154 presas em suas singularidades. A maternidade e a família apresentaram-se como o fio condutor na fala da grande maioria das entrevistadas. A religião surgiu como uma categoria importante no que tange a apropriação que as presas fazem desta para minimizar as mazelas do cotidiano carcerário e estabelecer uma convivência amistosa com as companheiras e com as agentes penitenciárias. O culto ao corpo aparece como uma outra categoria no cerne da experiência de encarceramento, uma vez que se transforma numa resistência a maciça institucionalização. Os projetos futuros são construídos a partir do valor dado a família, em especial a maternidade. A religião, em especial a evangélica, é apropriada como construção de táticas de sobrevivência dentro da prisão. O culto ao corpo serve como uma linha de fuga aos processos de serialização instituídos no cárcere feminino. Como conclusão apontamos a especificidade do encarceramento feminino: a maternidade. O encarceramento feminino atinge a sobrevivência dos filhos que, ante a enorme precariedade em que vivem, são destinados a abrigos do Estado ou enviados burocraticamente a familiares consangüíneos da presa. Assinalamos, neste estudo, a necessidade de construção de políticas públicas que se responsabilizem pelo bem estar de filhos e filhas de mulheres encarceradas. / [en] The current work is intended to investigate the existence or not of future projects for incarcerated women. Starting from the assumption that the total institutions have as their main characteristic the de- subjectivation of the subject, we sought to analyze the talk of 154 convicts in the uniqueness. Motherhood and family were presented as the lead in the talk of the great majority of those that were interviewed. Religion appeared as an important category in regard to the appropriation that the convicts make of it to minimize the afflictions of the day to day in jail and to establish a friendly companionship with their fellow inmates a with the prison agents. The cult to the body appears as another category in the core of the incarceration experience, since it transforms into a resistant to the massive institutionalization. The future projects are built from the value given to family, motherhood in particular. The religion, particularly the evangelical, is appropriated as the construction of survival tactics inside the prison. The cult to the body appears as escape route to the serialization processes established in the feminine incarceration. As a conclusion we point out the specificity of the feminine incarceration: motherhood. The feminine incarceration hits the survival of the children who, in view of the huge precariousness in which they live, are destined to State shelters, or burocratically sent to blood relatives of the convict. We stress, in this study, the need for building public policies which become responsible for the well-being of the sons ands daughters of incarcerated women.
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Predictors of Recidivism in Rural Incarcerated Women

Miller-Roenigk, Brittany D. January 2017 (has links)
No description available.
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Histórico familiar de mulheres encarceradas: fatores de risco e proteção para os filhos / Family history of incarcerated women: Risk factors and protection for children

Ormeño, Gabriela Isabel Reyes 28 March 2013 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:30:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5304.pdf: 2098603 bytes, checksum: 18d575e53bf5c809222f561de4a2717e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-28 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / This dissertation was developed in the form a group of scientific papers which are interconnected in order to describe the main risk and protective factors experienced by incarcerated mothers and their children. Initially there was a systematic review of the Brazilian literature of dissertations, thesis and papers, with the theme of incarcerated women, indicating lack of continuity of studies and the need for intervention programs with greater methodological rigor involving the women and families. Secondly e reviewed the Brazilian and international literature on main characteristics of children of incarcerated womem, signaling the need for systematic research in the context of primary prevention for these children. The history of violence experienced by these women in childhood and adulthood, found the occurrence of child maltreatment, high rate of attempted suicide, intimate partner and violence victimization, a high similarity of Brazilian with the data described in the international literature. Major traumatic situations described by incarcerated women with respect to their children, indicate thus these children were exposed to intimate partner violence, and child abuse suffered as a form of discipline. Incarcerated mothers maintained ties with their children through letters or visits from their offspring to care for their children after serving their sentences. The birthrate in the mother lives of these women included a large number of pregnancies, and children, as well as lack of family planning, pointing to the neglect from the Health systems and the prison in understanding the needs experienced by this population. The parenting style received in childhood by their caregivers was also analyzed from the perception of the female prisoners, as well as the parenting style used by themselves with their own children before incarceration, showing the intergenerationality of parenting practices. By analyzing interlinked variables in the lives of incarcerated women such the history of child maltreatment of the women and family violence history we conclude the need for prevention programs to work with women in situation of incarceration, as well as with the children of these women in order to prevent intergenerational violence. It is hoped that this dissertation will subsidy the creation of public policies addressing the many risks by incarceration women and their children. / A presente tese foi elaborada no formato de um conjunto de artigos científicos os quais estão interligados, com o intuito de descrever os principais fatores de risco e proteção experienciados por mães encarceradas e seus filhos. Num primeiro momento realizou-se uma revisão sistemática da literatura nacional de dissertações, teses e artigos científicos com a temática da mulher encarcerada, a qual apontou falta de continuidade dos estudos e a necessidade de se realizar programas de intervenção com maior rigor metodológico envolvendo essas mulheres e suas famílias. Em seguida foi realizada uma revisão nacional e internacional sobre as principais características de filhos de encarcerados, assinalando a necessidade de pesquisas sistemáticas no âmbito de prevenção primária para as crianças que se encontram na primeira infância. O histórico de violência vivenciado por essas mulheres na respectiva infância envolve a ocorrência de maus-tratos e vida adulta com alto índice de tentativa de suicídio, violência intima entre parceiros e uma concordância com os dados descritos pela literatura internacional. As principais situações traumáticas descritas pelas encarceradas com relação a seus filhos assinalam que a faixa etária mais atingida em termos de freqüência de sintomas foi dos sete aos nove anos, informando que essas crianças estiveram expostas a violência intima dos pais/cuidadores e que sofreram maus-tratos como forma de disciplina. A manutenção de vínculos entre mães e seus filhos mostrou que as encarceradas mantinham comunicação com os mesmos por meio de cartas ou visitas, sendo que as mães tinham o objetivo de cuidar de suas crianças ao cumprirem as penas. A natalidade dessas mulheres apontou um histórico frequente de gravidez e filhos, assim como, falta de planejamento familiar, desmascarando o descaso dos sistemas de educação, saúde e penitenciário ao não perceber as necessidades vividas por essa população. As praticas parentais recebidas na infância por parte das cuidadoras das encarceradas foram também analisados a partir da percepção das mesmas, assim como, o estilo parental utilizado pelas próprias com seus filhos antes do encarceramento. Constatou-se que houve intergeracionalidade das praticas maternas sendo as mesmas de risco. Ao analisar variáveis interligadas na vida das mulheres encarceradas, a saber: o histórico de maus-tratos na infância das mulheres, seu histórico de violência intrafamiliar e o encarceramento feminino, conclui-se a necessidade de se trabalhar programas preventivos a mulheres em situação de encarceramento e com seus filhos, visando prevenir a intergeracionalidade da violência. Espera-se, que a presente tese sirva de subsídios para a criação de políticas públicas que abordem as inúmeras situação de risco vivenciadas por mulheres em situação de encarceramento e seus filhos.

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