Crime, prostitution, drugs, and malingered insanity: Female offenders' resistant strategies to abuse and domination

Article Abstract:

A qualitative study that adopts a critical postmodern orientation and Foucault's bottom-up microsocial analysis of power to examine the trajectories of resistance of female offenders is presented. Informal conversations and indepth interviews with the female offenders allowed the reconstruction of female offending as a hidden script of resistance against intolerable socioeconomic deprivation and extreme forms of abuse.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Women criminals, Criminal psychology

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Structured assessment of correctional adaptation (SACA): A measure of the impact of incarceration on the mentally ill in a therapeutic setting

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A study was conducted to assess the reliability and concurrent validity of a rating scale designed to measure correctional adaptation using a sample of 64 patients from a state psychiatric hospital. It was found that structured assessment of correctional adaptation (SACA) scale might provide a meaningful indicator of the effects of correctional adaptation in a clinical environment.

Correctional psychology, Prison psychology

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Therapeutic communities and prison management: an examination of the effects of operating an in-prison therapeutic community on levels of institutional disorder

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This article examines the community treatment of prisoners with drug problems in medium to high security prisons, focusing on the prevention of prison violence and offender relapse and recidivism. Research reveals that prisons with therapeutic communities maintain lower levels of disorder than do non-treatment prisons.

Prisoners, Drug Offenders Rehabilitation, Prevention, Prison administration, Drug use, Drug treatment centers, Therapeutic jurisprudence, Prison violence, Drug treatment centres

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