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                                    Gender Responsive

      

                    
          
    Gender responsive
Gender-Responsive Strategies: Research, Practice, and Guiding Principles for Women Offenders
      Guidance for those individuals "seeking to more effectively respond to the behavior and circumstances of the female offender" is offered (p. iv).
    Effective Management of Female Inmates: Applying the Research on Gender Responsive Correctional Strategies to Local Jails
      Research, practice, and guiding principles related to gender-responsive strategies and utilized in jail settings are exchanged.
    The Gender-Responsive Strategies Project: Jail Applications
      Current research about women offenders and strategies for evaluating current operating procedures related to women offenders are covered.
    A Summary of Research, Practice, and Guiding Principles for Women Offenders. The Gender-Responsive Strategies Project: Approach and Findings
      Reviews information on gender-specific policies, programs, and services in corrections.
    Supervision of Women Defendants and Offenders in the Community
      The use of gender-responsive strategies with women involved in the community corrections system is explained.
    Using Jail Exit Surveys to Improve Community Responses to Women Offenders
      The "use of jail exit surveys as an effective data collection tool for creating [a] picture of the characteristics of women in contact with the loc
    Systemic Criminal Justice Planning: Improving Responses to Women Offenders in Hamilton County, Ohio
      The use of systemic criminal justice planning by Hamilton County (OH) to improve services and programming for women offenders is reviewed.
    Responding to Women Offenders: The Department of Women's Justice Services in Cook County, Illinois
    Women Offender Case Management Model
      The gender-responsive Women Offender Case Management Model (WOCMM) is described.
    Classification of Women Offenders: Gender-Responsive Approach to Risk/Needs Assessment
      An overview of the work done by collaborative partnerships to design and validate gender-responsive risk and needs assessments for female offenders


      Gender Responsive Interventions in the Era of Evidence-Based Practice: A Consumer's Guide to Understanding Research (2016)
      This monograph underscores the need for policymakers and practitioners to understand the fundamentals of research in order to guide their work with
    Bringing Gender-Responsive Principles into Practice Evidence from the Evaluation of the PACE Center for Girls (2017)
      This brief describes the principles of gender-responsive programs, summarizes the literature, and presents highlights of MDRC’s implementation stud
    Adopting a Gender-Responsive Approach for Women in the Justice System: A Resource Guide
      This guide to gender-responsive approaches was developed by The Council of State Governments Justice Center in partnership with the National Resour
    Examining Race and Gender Disparities in Restrictive Housing Placements (2018)
      This study assessed racial and ethnic disparities in men's and women's placements into any segregation; placements into particular types of segrega Return to top

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