Women on Probation and Parole: A Feminist Critique of Community Programs and Services (IEJ Seminar)

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This presentation by Dr. Merry Morash, Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, presents a data driven picture of the context and the supervising officers' interactions and actions that promote women offenders' success on probation and parole. It also uses the experiences of women in Gender Responsive County and in Traditional County to show how national and state policies effect women, and how women under supervision vary from each other in profound ways. Just as failure can be constructed through over supervision, success can be a false construction due to lack of attention and oversight. The talk is informed by detailed data from multiple interviews with women, from probation and parole records, and from official records of drug test results, rules violations, and crimes. Comments were provided by expert panelists Denise Robinson, President and CEO of Alvis House, and Dr. Paula Smith, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the Corrections Institute at University of Cincinnati.

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    What Works? Women on Probation and Parole in Two County Systems
    (Ohio State University. Criminal Justice Research Center, 2011-05-20) Morash, Merry
    Institute for Excellence in Justice Seminar: Women on Probation and Parole: A Feminist Critique of Community Programs and Services, May 20, 2011 at the Frank W. Hale Black Cultural Center, The Ohio State University. Presentation by Dr. Merry Morash, Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University. Accompanied by expert panelists Denise Robinson, President and CEO of Alvis House, and Dr. Paula Smith, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the Corrections Institute at University of Cincinnati. This presentation presents a data driven picture of the context and the supervising officers' interactions and actions that promote women offenders' success on probation and parole. It also uses the experiences of women in Gender Responsive County and in Traditional County to show how national and state policies effect women, and how women under supervision vary from each other in profound ways. Just as failure can be constructed through over supervision, success can be a false construction due to lack of attention and oversight. The talk is informed by detailed data from multiple interviews with women, from probation and parole records, and from official records of drug test results, rules violations, and crimes.
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    An Update on Gender Responsive Strategies - 2011
    (Ohio State University. Criminal Justice Research Center, 2011-05) Kennedy, Amanda
    This Best Practices tool kit identifies research regarding practices that are considered promising, proven to be beneficial or "best practices" in the treatment of female ex-offenders on probation and parole. According to former director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Reginald Wilkinson, best practices range anywhere from practices which are empirically proven to be effective to strategies which demonstrate promise but have not yet been thoroughly evaluated. This document briefly summarizes four studies which outline effective strategies and particular aspects of working with women on probation and parole. Following this, there is a an annotated bibliography, featuring publications from the past five years which further examine the issue of women’s experiences with re-entry. Note that this document serves largely as an addendum to Coretta Pettway’s 2006 Institute for Excellence in Justice Best Practices tool kit, "Gender Responsive Strategies," which is available at http://hdl.handle.net/1811/24560.