Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
Rehabilitation, Women Offenders and the Voluntary Sector
Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
ISBN: 978-1-138-16585-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Drawing on archival, interview, and observational sources, the author describes, analyses, and evaluates a distinctive model of care provision by volunteer, upper-middle-class women that has since been overtaken by the professionalization of the voluntary sector. Rumgay illuminates the pathways of women into, and out of, serious crime; explores the dynamics of rehabilitative practice in the volatile setting of residential care; and also analyses the qualities of successful rehabilitative practice.
Subsequently, the author suggests rehabilitative success is more appropriately understood within a paradigm of natural desistance from crime, instead of the more common appeal to a medical model of treatment. Moreover, this style of rehabilitative practice is inextricable from the broader social outlook of a dedicated group of philanthropic women, whose critics derided them with epithets such as 'Lady Bountiful'.
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Foreword by Frances Heidensohn 1. Introduction 2. A philanthropic phoenix 3. Just ladies who lunch? 4. Pioneers on the front line 5. Dangerous women or women in danger? 6. Rehabilitation in the real world 7. Desistance and despair 8. The philanthropic ideal