Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration

Abstract

Studies suggest that maintaining family ties can help reduce the likelihood of reoffending, and that while parental imprisonment can increase a child's likelihood to offend, positive responses to the situation can aid the children's well-being, attitude and attainment. Drawing on findings from the recently completed EU-funded COPING Project on the mental health of children of prisoners, this chapter explores the factors that aid a child's ability to cope with parental imprisonment and the actions that different stakeholders can take to support them. It identifies some of the mental health impacts at different stages of parental imprisonment, the roles played by non-imprisoned parents/carers and by schools, and suggests options for further clarifying the factors that help and hinder children of prisoners in the short and long term.

Why Not Us? Experiences of Incarcerated Women on Education Access in Malawi Prisons

“…In South Africa, most black women who were incarcerated after committing economic offences such as shoplifting were also found to have low education levels and no proper forms of income (Dastile & Agozino, 2019). Huber (2015) also reports that many uneducated and illiterate women are incarcerated for sex-related crimes such as prostitution which penalize women as service providers leaving out men who assume the role of clients.…”

“…However, studies worldwide report that significant numbers of women and girls are denied access to education programmes in many penitentiary facilities (Huber, 2015;Korzh, 2021;Ryder, 2020). Thus, gender inequality in education is still an issue in many institutions in many countries (Ghaempanah & Khapova, 2023).…”

“…In a study conducted by an organisation called Allen & Overy LLP (2019) covering Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria and the Gambia, it was reported that many countries were not providing similar education and skills training opportunities to both men and women. Correctional programmes seldom take care of the genderspecific needs of female offenders (Huber, 2015). This is because, compared to those opportunities accessible to men, few academic and vocational skills opportunities were accessible to women (Korzh, 2021).…”

“…This is because, compared to those opportunities accessible to men, few academic and vocational skills opportunities were accessible to women (Korzh, 2021). Worse still, those few existing programmes were usually poorly resourced compared to those offered to male offenders (Huber 2015).…”

Problems Of Leadership In Pre-Revolutionary Colonies-Shelters In Russia

“…Dillon (2017) has studied the peculiar features of the crimes committed by young criminals depending on the age characteristics; she suggested ways of solving this problem. The researcher Dünkel (2016) analyses regulatory framework regarding protection of the underage criminals, describes main guarantees of this group of people. Chopra (2015) has studied the activity and principles of the facilities working with young criminals, uncovered the causes that bring children to committing a crime.…”