Vocational Education and Training for Female Inmates in Australia

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JUSTICE SYSTEM1
This paper provides a detailed discussion regarding the vocational education and training
among the adult inmates in the country of Australia. The discussion is focused on the education
of the female prisoners and the study is focused on some selected jurisdictions. This assignment
provides an explanation to the inclinations in the confinement of women and mediation programs
that are available to the female in penitentiary in Australia. It shall delve into the matter of
vocational education and intervention methods in the prisons of the island continent, that is,
Australia. More specifically, this assignment shall focus on the state of Victoria of the nation
(Farley & Pike, 2016).
Many research and examinations have been conducted in relation to the female inmates
on a global scale. It has been noted every time that the populace of women or the percentage of
women out of the total number of prison population is small. In the year of 1999, the female
population of prison compared to the total population in the prison was only six per cent. Even
though the number of females in the prison is less in comparison to the actual population, the
percentage of the female inmates has been increasing. The data that is based on a proper research
shall validate that the imprisonment rate of the women has been increasing for the past ten years
and the primary reasons for the women getting imprisoned is due to the involvement in crimes
like drug abuse and violence relating to property and assets. The correctional services in the
nation of Australia, govern the agendas that addresses to the aberrant conduct of the inmates
(Mohammed & Mohamed, 2015). Presently, there is a significant interest and originality in the
strategies and distribution of the intrusions for prisoners regarding the issues of drug abuse. The
vicious offences include murder, battering, sexual offences and robbery. The offences relating to
property are stealing, breaking and entering, fraud and embezzlement.

JUSTICE SYSTEM2
The populace of the Australian prisons is extending and enlarging rapidly. There has been
an upsurge of 40% in the past five years. The increase has also been perceived in case of the
female incarceration in the prisons of the Australian states. All the prisoners in a particular
prison, are to be released at some point of time. Therefore, after an individual is released from
the prison, the community integration program plays an important role in the lives of those
people who have been released. The vocational education or the interventions in the prisons and
the correctional institutions are very crucial. It aims at educating and rehabilitating the inmates
so that these inmates, once released, shall not re-enter the prison. Vocational education strategies
are sorted as mediums for the reduction in recidivism. In case of the female inmates, the program
of intervention and the program of the vocational training are more productive. A huge number
of women who has been previously incarcerated in the prison are now doing proper jobs in the
outside world. The practice of such vocational education training and intervention in the prisons
have been given huge importance. The quality and the productivity of the female inmates are
judged, based on the training that a particular women receives while that woman was
incarcerated in the prison. These correctional services are also provided in order to combat the
crime rate (Giles, Paris & Whale, 2016). It is a well-known fact and notion that according to the
theories of the criminology, the employment and opportunities of the employment act as a
motivation to steer away from the life of crime and be a criminal (Newton et. al., 2018).
Across the prisons and the correctional centers for women in Australia, especially in the
state of Victoria, any person who is suitable to work, start working in the prisons according to
their needs. The vocational education training (VET) are provided to such capable women, in
order to create opportunities for these women for employment purposes (Grant & Jewkes, 2015).