Why Gender Matters

Nena Messina, Barbara Bloom and Stephanie Covington discuss how an effective system for justice-involved women needs to be structured differently than such a system for men.

In a chapter in Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice Nena Messina, Barbara Bloom and Stephanie Covington discuss how an effective system for justice-involved women needs to be structured differently than such a system for men. For centuries, women in jails, prisons, and community corrections have been receiving services and programmes primarily developed for their male counterparts.

Why Gender Matters is part of the Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice edited by P. Ugwudike, P. Raynor, F. McNeill, F. Taxman, C. Trotter and H. Graham. London, England: Routledge. In press.