Women and crime

Corrections and offender management

• Statistics
• AIC publications
• Conferences and presentations
• Other resources

Statistics

• Age and gender of prisoners
• Female prisoners

AIC publications

• Factors associated with drug and alcohol dependency among women in prison (2006)
• Key findings from the Drug Use Careers of Female Offenders study (2004)
• Drugs and crime : a study of incarcerated female offenders (2004)
• Deaths in custody : a gender-specific analysis (2002)
• Number of female prisoners increases (2001)
• Women prisoners and correctional programs (2001)
• Gender and official statistics : the juvenile justice system in Queensland, 1998-99 (2000)
• Women and crime : imprisonment issues (1992)

Conferences and presentations

• Women in corrections : staff and clients (2000)

• Victim - offender conferencing : issues of power imbalance for women juvenile participants
  Rachel Field, 2003
• Women in prison : why is the rate of incarceration increasing?
  Karen Gelb, 2003
• Cultural program initiative
  Pat Maurer, 2001
• The white wall syndrome : an Indigenous framework for practice operating within the women's prison
  Debbie Kilroy, 1999
• WOMEN (Ways to Organise and Maintain Effective Networks) pilot programs
  Antoinette Allegritti, 2000
• Women prisoners in Queensland in the interwar years
  Kerry Wimhurst, 1999
• The big prison
  Amanda George, 1993

Other resources

Australia

• Sisters Inside Inc.
  A community organisation working alongside women in prison, advocating for women's rights in the criminal justice system and to address gaps in the services available to them
• Somebody's Daughter Theatre
  A unique company working in art, music and drama with women in prison and post release, and fostering artistic endeavours with disempowered youth at risk in rural areas
• Better pathways : an integrated response to women's offending and re-offending
  Victoria Department of Justice, 2005
• Severed connections : an exploration of the impact of imprisonment of women's familial and social connectedness (PDF 1.81MB)
  Dot Goulding. Research Centre for Social and Community Research, Murdoch University, 2004
• Toward best practice in women' corrections : the Western Australian low security prison for women
  Joanna Salomone. Western Australia Department of Justice, 2004
• Addressing the needs of female offenders : policy and action plan 2003-08 (PDF 167kB)
  Queensland Department of Corrective Services, 2003
• Profile of women in prison
  Western Australia Department of Justice, 2002
• The management of Indigenous prisoners, prisoners from different cultural backgrounds and women prisoners (PDF 299kB)
  University of South Australia, literature review for the ACT Government, 1999
• Women in prison : the criminal court perspective (PDF 563kB)
  Jacqueline Fitzgerald. New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 1999
• Women in prison (PDF 108kB)
  Anne Edwards. New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 1995

Other countries

• International profile of women's prisons
  International Centre for Prison Studies, London : International Centre for Prison Studies. 2008
• Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
  Works with and for women and girls in the justice system to ensure substantive equality in the delivery and development of services and programs
• Female offenders
  National Criminal Justice Reference Service (US)
• Female Offenders
  Scottish Executive
• Women offender issues
  National Institute of Corrections (US)
• Women and corrections publications
  Corrections Service of Canada
• International profile of women's prisons (PDF 985kB)
  International Centre for Prison Studies. 2008
• 'We are a significant minority' : old women in English prisons (PDF 92kB)
  Azrini Wahidin. In The British criminology conferences : selected proceedings, vol. 6, 2003
• Taking risks : incorporating gender and culture into the classification and assessment of federally sentenced women in Canada
  Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Margaret Shaw. Status of Women Canada, 2001
• An examination of female prisoners in Canada : characteristics and treatment
  Shelley Trevethan. Women in corrections conference, 2000
• Research and developments in Britain 1999-2000
  Chris Lewis. Women in corrections conference, 2000
• Real punishment for real criminals? Community sentences and the gendering of punishment (PDF 112kB)
  Anne Worrall. In The British criminology conferences : selected proceedings, vol. 1 : Emerging themes in criminology, 1998
• Mothers in prison (PDF 516kB)
  Diane Caddle and Debbie Crisp. Home Office (UK), 1997