Female Offenders Under Community Supervision: A Phenomenological Analysis

Rivas, Michele; Killian, Thomas; Rinke, Carol R.; Cole, Rebecca L.

doi:10.1002/jaoc.12087

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“…The challenges that women face while incarcerated, at re-entry, and under community supervision have been well-documented [5][6][7][8]. Most justice-involved women are survivors of interpersonal trauma who are living with substance use and/or mental health issues [9,10].…”

Section: Justice-involved Womenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Humans peeing: Justice-involved women’s access to toilets in public spaces

Smoyer

Pittman²,

Borzillo³

2023

PLoS ONE

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Justice-involved women face myriad challenges as they negotiate the terms of community supervision and manage the long-term implications and stigma of living with a criminal record. Major tasks that women juggle include securing safe, affordable housing, finding and retaining employment, accessing physical and mental health care (including substance use treatment), and handling relationships with family, friends, children, and intimate partners. In addition to these responsibilities, women must meet their basic physiological needs to eat, sleep, and use the toilet. Women’s ability to safely meet their personal care needs may impact their capacity to manage their criminal-legal challenges. This study uses qualitative methods to understand justice-involved women’s lived experiences related to urination. Specifically, the study reports on a thematic analysis of 8 focus groups conducted with justice-involved women (n = 58) and the results of a toilet audit conducted in the downtown areas of the small city in the United States where the focus group participants were living. Findings suggest that women had limited access to restrooms and reported urinating outside. Lack of restroom access impacted their engagement with social services support and employment and their ability to travel through public spaces. Women perceived their public toilet options as unsafe, increasing their sense of vulnerability and reinforcing the idea that they did not have full access to citizenship in the community because of their criminal-legal involvement. The exclusion and denial of women’s humanity that is perpetuated by a lack of public toilet access impacts women’s psychosocial outcomes. City governments, social service agencies, and employers are encouraged to consider how lack of toilet access may impact their public safety and criminal-legal objectives and expand opportunities for people to access safe restroom facilities.

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Section: Justice-involved Womenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Humans peeing: Justice-involved women’s access to toilets in public spaces

Smoyer

Pittman²,

Borzillo³

2023

PLoS ONE

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“…Furthermore, counselors must intentionally recruit and engage women with marginalized racial identities who may otherwise have low participation and less access to care outside prison settings (Kendall et al., 2018) to improve their chances of post‐release success. In a recent study, women in community supervision shared their experiences of not being prepared to utilize their unstructured time in a productive way (Rivas et al., 2021). One theme in this phenomenological study was “Development – ‘They Expect Me to Know, But No One Teaches Me’” (p. 26).…”

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Characteristics of incarcerated women's participation in groups: Exploring the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies United States prison dataset

Becton

Holman

Harrell-Williams

2022

J Addict Offender Couns

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This study employs logistic regression and latent class analyses to explore the relationship between incarcerated women's (n = 252) participation in nonacademic prison groups/skills classes and their demographic (e.g., education) and prison context (e.g., time to release) characteristics, using the 2014 Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies United States prison dataset. Time to release was a significant factor in readiness class participation. Time to release and race/ethnicity were significant factors in addiction group participation. Education level had the largest effect size across all groups/classes explored. We discuss counseling implications for using group/class screening to connect with incarcerated women, especially those with intersecting and historically marginalized identities.

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Female Offenders Under Community Supervision: A Phenomenological Analysis

Cited by 2 publications

References 26 publications

Humans peeing: Justice-involved women’s access to toilets in public spaces

Humans peeing: Justice-involved women’s access to toilets in public spaces

Characteristics of incarcerated women's participation in groups: Exploring the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies United States prison dataset

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