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Women in Prison in Australia

   

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Corrections : Theory and Practice(WOMEN IN PRISON)
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1Women in the Criminal Justice System in Australia..............................................................1Pathways into offending.........................................................................................................1Profile of corrective system in Australia................................................................................2Profile of women in prisons...................................................................................................3Difference between management of male and female prisoners............................................4'Cons in skirts'.........................................................................................................................5Management and rehabilitation programs for women offenders...........................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION A person who has legally committed a crime and serving a life sentence in a prisonusually known as a prisoner (Cunneen and Rowe, 2014). Criminals or prisoners are sent toprisons or correction homes for their life improvement and turn offensive behaviour of themtowards social welfare activities. Women offenders is one of the fastest growing segments inAustralia and other countries of prison population (Wilson and et. al., 2017) . The present reportin this regard, is going to make a discussion on Women in Prisoner, in context of criminologycorrection of Australia. A research is carried on through reading the various theories ofcorrection and practicals applications. Here, the main reason to chose this topic is to analyse howfemales are treated and highly discriminate in Victoria prisons.MAIN BODY Women in the Criminal Justice System in AustraliaWomen offenders of the prison population are considered as the fastest growing sector inAustralia (Holtfreter and Wattanaporn, 2014). As per Australian Bureau of Statistics (2013),from over last ten years, population of female prisoners have been increased by 60%, whereaboriginal women in the same, are massively overrepresented. In addition to this, approximately2% of Australian female population are identified as being of aboriginal while indigenous onesconsist one third of same (Women in Prison Australia, 2017). Aboriginal women are generallythose criminal offenders that associate with extreme poor background, alcoholic and drug relatedoffences etc. However, there is significant increases from last few decades in imprisonment foroffences within Victoria such as robbery, assault, homicide and theft (Ogloff and et. al., 2017).Furthermore, as per latest record of Statistical Bureau of Australia (2018) rate of femaleprisoners is growing rapidly as compared to males. Here, the most prevalent offences wereincludes acts that are intentionally done for causing injuries (near about 22% of total prisonerpopulation), illicit drug offences (over 16%), sexual assault and physically or mentally harassed(12%). Pathways into offendingFrom the last two decades, it has observed from statistical analysis that numbers ofwomen offenders in criminal justice system are continuously increasing (Harding, 2018). Theyare sentenced for imprisonment for longer periods due to number of reasons (Prisoners in1
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