Women in corrections: a call to social work

Title: Women in corrections: a call to social work
Creator: Agllias, Kylie
Relation: Australian Social Work Vol. 57, Issue 4, p. 331-342
Relation: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118779750/abstract
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2004
Description: As governments continue to spend more money on law enforcement and prison construction, social workers will be increasingly faced with clients who have connections with the criminal justice and correctional systems. Despite the increasing numbers of women entering the criminal justice system, they continue to be one of the most marginalised groups in Australian society. This article reviews the social work literature concerning this population and proceeds to argue that social work has a significant role to play with women in corrections. Using a conceptual model based on an ecological systems framework, the author examines the mutuality of various social work practice principles at different levels of intervention and the roles that social workers may engage in to enhance the lives of women in corrections.
Subject: corrections; social work; women
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/44513
Identifier: uon:5789
Identifier: ISSN:0312-407X
Language: eng
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