The Wiley Handbook on What Works with Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law

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by  Shelley L. Brown, Loraine Gelsthorpe

The Wiley Handbook on
What Works with Girls and Women
in Conflict with the Law:
A Critical Review of Theory,
Practice, and Policy
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THE WILEY HANDBOOK ON WHAT WORKS WITH GIRLS AND
WOMEN IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW: A CRITICAL REVIEW
OF THEORY, PRACTICE, AND POLICY
Shelley L. Brown and Loraine Gelsthorpe
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The Wiley Handbook on What Works
with Girls and Women in Conflict
with the Law
A Critical Review of Theory, Practice, and Policy
Edited by
Shelley L. Brown
Loraine Gelsthorpe
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Title: The Wiley handbook on what works with girls and women in conflict
with the law : a critical review of theory, practice, and policy /
edited by Shelley L. Brown, Loraine Gelsthorpe.
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Subjects: LCSH: Female offenders--Services for. | Female
offenders--Rehabilitation. | Crime--Sex differences. | Sex
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Contents
Acknowledgements viii
Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Shelley L. Brown and Loraine Gelsthorpe
Part I Theories of Female Offending 11
1 Evolution, Evidence, and Impact of the Feminist Pathways Perspective 13
Kristy Holtfreter, Natasha Pusch, and Katelyn A. Golladay
2 Developmental and Life Course Perspectives on Female Offending 24
Alex R. Piquero, Nicole Leeper Piquero, and Chelsey Narvey
3 Extending Learning, Control, and Strain Perspectives to Explain the
Gender Gap and Female Offending 34
Lisa Broidy and Megan Nyce
4 Understanding Female Crime and Antisocial Behavior through a Biosocial
and Evolutionary Lens 46
Shelley L. Brown and Colleen Robb
Part II Assessment and Security Classification 62
5 Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law: A Review of Risk and Strength Factors 64
Terri Scott, Megan Wagstaff, and Cassandra Conley
6 Assessment, Security Classification and Humane Prison Environments 77
Kelley Blanchette and Renée Gobeil
7 Advances in Female Risk Assessment 89
Linsey Belisle, Jaclyn Parker Keen, Tereza Trejbalová, Bridget Kelly, and
Emily J. Salisbury
8 Can “Gender Neutral” Risk Assessment Tools be used with Women
and Girls? If so, How? 102
Mark Olver and Keira C. Stockdale
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9 Validating Supplementary Needs Assessment Tools for Use with Girls
and Women in Conflict with the Law 120
Jala Rizeq and Tracey Skilling
Part III Exploring the Meaning of Gender Responsive Tenets 135
10 Defining and Evaluating Gender-Responsive Treatment 137
Patricia Van Voorhis
11 Expanding Opportunities for Justice-Involved Women: Transforming
the What and How of Rehabilitation 157
Marilyn Van Dieten
12 Creating a Trauma-Informed Justice System for Women 172
Stephanie Covington
13 Taking Note of Carceral Distance in Family Programs for Incarcerated Women 185
Caroline Lanskey and Molly Biddle
14 Responding to Problem Substance Use: Deconstructing Structures and
Politicizing the Personal 203
Maria Fotopoulou and Margaret S. Malloch
Part IV Gender Responsive Models in Practice 215
15 Women, Crime, and Justice in Scotland 217
Gill McIvor
16 A Review of Women-Centered Programming and Research Evidence
in the Federal Canadian Context 229
Chantal Allen and Kaitlyn Wardrop
17 Women, Crime and Justice in England and Wales 244
Loraine Gelsthorpe
18 Effective Community Interventions for Justice-Involved Girls
and Women in the United States 256
Merry Morash and Kayla M. Hoskins
19 Evidence-Based Community Supervision Models that Work:
The Australian Approach 267
Rosemary Sheehan
Part V Working with Special Populations
Through a Gender Responsive Lens 281
20 Evidence Based Practices with Justice-Involved Indigenous Girls and Women 283
Leticia Gutierrez and Kayla A. Wanamaker
21 Female Offending During Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood 295
Gilly Sharpe
22 Trauma and Mental Health Among Justice-involved Girls and Women 307
Vivienne de Vogel
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Contents vii
23 Personality Disorders and Female Offending 323
Janet I. Warren, Shelly L. Jackson, Elisha R. Agee, Sara B. Millspaugh, and
Maihan F. Alam
24 Female Perpetrators of Sexual Offences 342
Samuel T. Hales and Theresa A. Gannon
25 Female Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence 354
Annette McKeown, Patrick J. Kennedy, and Joanne McGrath
Part VI Legal and Policy Implications 369
26 What Works? Beyond Interventions and Programs 371
Loraine Gelsthrope
27 The Impact of Law and Correctional Policies on Women
Incarcerated in the United States 383
Andie Moss and Julie Abbate
28 Successful Resettlement or Setting Women Up to Fail? Policy and
Practice for Women Released from Prison in England and Wales 396
Katy Swaine Williams and Jenny Earle
Conclusion 409
Loraine Gelsthorpe and Shelley L. Brown
Index 415
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all of the contributors for their patience, given the long gestation of
this book, when the pandemic has taken its toll on all of us. We would also like to express our
sincere gratitude to Faith Payne and Charlotte Dove, based at the Institute of Criminology,
University of Cambridge, UK, for their generous assistance in getting all the chapters into the
Wiley house style.
We have benefited from the kind assistance of Cathrine Pettersen, Emma McFarlane,
Melissa O’Donaghy, and Cassidy Hatton from the Department of Psychology, Carleton
University, Ottawa, Canada. Thank you for your immense help in collating and formatting the
chapters.
We would also like to thank the publishers for their patience and understanding as we
repeatedly promised and missed deadlines. Many thanks are also extended to the copyedit
team for painstakingly proofreading the book.
Most importantly, we would like to acknowledge the endless courage and personal resil-
ience of the girls and women (and their families) who have been impacted by criminal justice
systems worldwide.
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Contributors
Julie Abbate, J.D. University of Houston, Downtown
(Former) Deputy Chief Houston, Texas
Special Litigation Section United States
Civil Rights Division
US Department of Justice Molly Biddle, B.A. (Haverford College)
Washington, D.C. Visiting Student, 2018–19
United States Institute of Criminology, University of
Cambridge
Maihan F. Alam, B.A. Cambridge, United Kingdom
Research Assistant
Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy Kelley Blanchette, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Ottawa, Ontario
Neurobehavioral Sciences Canada
Charlottesville, University of Virginia
United States Lisa Broidy, Ph.D.
Regents’ Professor and Graduate Program
Chantal Allen Director
Manager Department of Sociology
Women Offender Sector University of New Mexico
Correctional Service of Canada Albuquerque, New Mexico
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada Shelley L. Brown, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Elisha R. Agee, Psy.D. Department of Psychology
Staff Forensic Psychologist Carleton University
Institute of Law, Psychiatry, & Public Policy Ottawa, Ontario
University of Virginia School of Medicine Canada
Charlottesville, Virginia
United States Cassandra Conley, M.A.
Department of Psychology
Linsey Belisle, Ph.D. Carleton University
Assistant Professor Ottawa, Ontario
Department of Criminal Justice and Social Work Canada
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x Contributors
Stephanie S. Covington, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. Katelyn A. Golladay, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Institute for Relational Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal
Development, Center for Gender and Justice Justice & Sociology
La Jolla, California University of Wyoming
United States Laramie, Wyoming
United States
Vivienne de Vogel, Ph.D.
Professor at the University of Applied Loraine Gelsthorpe, Ph.D.
Sciences Utrecht Professor of Criminology and Criminal
Centre for Social Innovation Justice & Director
Senior Researcher at the Research Institute of Criminology, University of
Department De Forensische Cambridge
Zorgspecialisten Cambridge
Utrecht United Kingdom
The Netherlands
Leticia Gutierrez, Ph.D.
Dr. Jenny Earle Senior Research and Policy Advisor
Open University Honorary Doctorate; B.A. Office of the Correctional Investigator
(Hons) Cantab Ottawa, Ontario
Programme Director, Reducing Women’s Canada
Imprisonment
Prison Reform Trust Samuel T. Hales, M.Sc. (Forensic
London Psychology), MBPsS
United Kingdom Doctoral Researcher in Forensic Psychology
Centre of Research & Education in Forensic
Maria Fotopoulou, Ph.D. Psychology (CORE-FP)
Lecturer in Criminology and Programme School of Psychology, Keynes College,
Director MSc Substance Use University of Kent
Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Canterbury, Kent
Research United Kingdom
University of Stirling
Stirling Kristy Holtfreter, Ph.D.
Scotland Professor, School of Criminology &
Criminal Justice
Theresa A. Gannon, DPhil., CPsychol. Arizona State University
(Forensic) Phoenix, Arizona
Professor United States
Centre of Research & Education in Forensic and
Psychology (CORE-FP) Editor-in-Chief, Feminist Criminology
School of Psychology, Keynes College,
University of Kent Kayla M. Hoskins, M.S.
Canterbury, Kent Doctoral Candidate
United Kingdom Michigan State University School of
Criminal Justice
Renée Gobeil, Ph.D. Michigan State University
Ottawa, Ontario East Lansing, Michigan
Canada United States
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