2017
DOI: 10.1108/tc-01-2017-0002
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Women’s treatment on men’s conditions: a critical evaluation of selected literature and research findings

Abstract: Purpose Deviant behavior was punished during the middle ages. In the seventeenth century, people were locked up in asylums. A first step towards humanization was taken by the founders of the moral treatment movement in the nineteenth century, but it declined at the end of that century. What we today call “milieu therapy” represents a new phase in treating mental illness and deviance. After the Second World War, the therapeutic community (TC) method was widely implemented in Europe, but the needs of different t… Show more

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“…Criminality is generally viewed as masculine behaviour (Widom, 1984), despite the fact that literally anyone can commit an act against the law, be it a man or a woman, an adult or a youth, the rich or the poor, the description of what constitutes a 'criminal' is not a one-size-fits-all situation. Though post-release assistance cannot be a blanket approach of 'what works for one person will work for everyone', due to a lack of research into women and criminality, solutions and programmes which were designed for men are consistently used for women as well (Segraeus, 2017), and women's specific social and health related needs are often overlooked in a system that thus far, has mainly been designed with men in mind (Mills, Kendall, et al, 2013).…”
Section: Chapter 1: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Criminality is generally viewed as masculine behaviour (Widom, 1984), despite the fact that literally anyone can commit an act against the law, be it a man or a woman, an adult or a youth, the rich or the poor, the description of what constitutes a 'criminal' is not a one-size-fits-all situation. Though post-release assistance cannot be a blanket approach of 'what works for one person will work for everyone', due to a lack of research into women and criminality, solutions and programmes which were designed for men are consistently used for women as well (Segraeus, 2017), and women's specific social and health related needs are often overlooked in a system that thus far, has mainly been designed with men in mind (Mills, Kendall, et al, 2013).…”
Section: Chapter 1: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%