Gender Responsive Strategies: Responding to Female Offenders

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Dr. Barbara Bloom, Associate Professor at Sonoma University, discuss her research on: the characteristics of women in correctional settings; frameworks regarding how gender matters for criminal justice practice; guiding principles for gender responsive policy development and treatment approaches; and the implications of research findings for correctional practice for women offenders. Following Dr. Bloom’s presentation, comments were provided by Warden Tracy Tyson-Parker, Franklin Pre-Release Center, Dr. Dana Hubbard, Assistant Professor at Cleveland State University and Wendy Smooth, Assistant Professor at Ohio State University.

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The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/criminaljustice/111706.mp4

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female offenders, gender responsive, best practices

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