Drugs, women, and justice
Subtitle: roles of the criminal justice system for drug-affected women
By: James A. Swartz, Patricia O'Brien, Arthur J. Lurigio, editors.
Contributors: Swartz, James, 1955-; O'Brien, Patricia, 1955-; Lurigio, Arthur J.
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780789036247
Subjects: Women -- Drug use -- United States; Women prisoners -- United States; Female offenders -- Rehabilitation -- United States; Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation -- United States; Prisoners' families -- United States; Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States
Other titles: Women & criminal justice.
Notes: "Co-published simultaneously as Women & criminal justice, volume 17, numbers 2/3 2006."

Papers presented at a symposium on "Drugs, Women, and Justice: a Research Perspective" sponsored by the Jane Addams College of Social Work in September 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / James A. Swartz; title: Women and the criminal justice system : improving outcomes through criminal justice and non-criminal justice responses / Faye S. Taxman, Karen L. Cropsey; title: Research to action : informing policy makers about the needs of mothers and children at risk of separation / Patricia E. Allard; title: Differences among children whose mothers have been in contact with the criminal justice system / Susan D. Phillips ... [et al.]; title: Predictors of loneliness among court-involved and substance abusing mothers; title: Drugs, women, and justice : roles of the criminal justice system for drug-affected women / Elizabeth Lehr Essex, Donna Petras, Carol Rippey Massat; title: Beyond gender responsivity : considering differences among community dwelling women involved in the criminal justice system and those involved in treatment / Sheryl Pimlott Kubiak, Cynthia L. Arfken; title: Maximizing success for drug-affected women after release from prison : examining access to and use of social services during reentry / Patricia O'Brien; title: Power inside : a grassroots program for women survivors of traumatic violence, the street economy, and the criminal justice system / Jacqueline Robarge; title: Defining a research agenda on women and justice in the age of mass incarceration / Jeremy Travis; title: Women and drug use : the case for a justice analysis / Beth E. Richie.