Female offenders

The Effects of Age at Prison Release on Women's Desistance Trajectories: a Mixed-Method Analysis

Date Published

2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

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NIJ-Sponsored

Gender and Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism in the United States

Date Published

2021

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Understanding Incarceration and Re-Entry Experiences of Female Inmates and their Children: The Women’s Prison Inmate Networks Study (WO-PINS)

Date Published

October 2021

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NIJ-Sponsored

Women and Drugs Revisited: Female Participation in the Cocaine Economy

Date Published

1994

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Dynamics of a Prison-Based Therapeutic Community for Women Offenders: Retention, Completion, and Outcomes

Date Published

March 2006

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

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NIJ-Sponsored

Jail: A Found Opportunity for Intervening With Drug-Abusing Pregnant Women

Date Published

1994

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

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NIJ-Sponsored

Prisons as Self-Regulating Systems - A Comparison of Historical Patterns in California for Male and Female Offenders

Date Published

1983

Publication Type

Historical Overview

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NIJ-Sponsored

Poverty, State Capital, and Recidivism Among Women Offenders

Date Published

March 2004

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Risk Factors for Death or Life-Threatening Injury for Abused Women in Chicago (From Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004, Bonnie Fisher, ed. -- See NCJ-199701)

Date Published

2004

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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NIJ-Sponsored

SELF-REPORTED CRIME RATES OF WOMEN PRISONERS

Date Published

1993

Publication Type

Survey

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NIJ-Sponsored

Palestinian Women in Terrorism: Protectors or Protected?

Date Published

May 2008

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Solutions in Corrections: Using Evidence-based Knowledge

May 2010

Series

Research for the Real World

Professor Ed Latessa describes how his team and he assessed more than 550 programs and saw the best and the worst. Professor Latessa shared his lessons learned and examples of states that are trying to use evidence-based knowledge to improve correctional programs.

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What Works in Offender Supervision

June 2009

This NIJ Conference Panel highlights findings from NIJ projects that evaluated strategies to enhance the supervision of offenders in the community. Researchers discuss the effectiveness of fair, swift and certain sanctions for high-risk probationers in the Hawaii HOPE program. Panelists also provide empirical evidence on the effectiveness of electronic monitoring — including the use of GPS tracking — for medium- and high-risk offenders on supervision and upon completion of their supervision sentence.

Sexual Victimization in Prisons: Moving Toward Elimination - Expert Chat Webinar, NIJ and Harvard's Government Innovators Network

Date Published

February 2008

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis, Issue Overview

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Prisoner Reentry: Facing the Challenges of Returning Home - Expert Chat Webinar, NIJ and Harvard's Government Innovators Network

Date Published

November 2005

Publication Type

Issue Overview, Instructional Material (Programmed)

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NIJ-Sponsored

What Works in Reentry

December 2018

Series

Research for the Real World

This Research for the Real World seminar, held October 29, 2018 focuses on the role and importance of institutional and community corrections, and rehabilitative and reentry services in crime prevention and public safety efforts. The seminar supports NIJ and the field in furthering the corrections and reentry research agenda, and advancing the knowledge of the Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry.

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