Women and crime
Corrections and offender management
Statistics
AIC publications
Conferences and presentations
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