‘Holistic’ Community Punishment and Criminal Justice Interventions for Women
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„holistic‟ Community Punishment and Criminal Justice Interventions for Women
Calls for „holistic‟ responses to halt the increasing imprisonment of women are continually reiterated. Solutions are sought which aim to be both „gender-responsive‟ and „community-based‟, however the absence of meaningful definitions of „community‟ and „holistic‟ means that superficial responses are often put in place in response to failures of the system. Taking as an example one attempt to i...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0265-5527
DOI: 10.1111/hojo.12077