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Female Prisoners, AIDS, and Peer Programs [electronic resource] : How Female Offenders Transform Their Lives / by Kimberly Collica.

By: Collica, Kimberly [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: SpringerBriefs in Psychology: Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013Description: XIII, 94 p. 3 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781461451105.Subject(s): Philosophy (General) | Criminology | Applied psychology | Law -- Psychological aspects | Psychology | Law and Psychology | Criminology & Criminal Justice | Community and Environmental PsychologyDDC classification: 150 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Women, Prison and HIV: An Introduction -- Crime Trajectories and Crime Desistance -- Female Offenders and The Inmate Subculture -- The Effects of Prison-Based Programming -- The Success of HIV Prison-Based Peer Programming.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book highlights a neglected area in the field of rehabilitation of female offenders with AIDS.  It provides data to show how women, working as HIV peer educators in prison, utilize their peer experiences as a transition point for rehabilitation both inside and outside of the penitentiary. HIV and prison are inextricably linked and education has proved to be the one constant that mitigates the spread of both HIV and crime. Research on female inmates in general is not frequent and this book presents unique qualitative data that includes rich accounts from the women themselves. It illustrates the benefits derived by female inmates who work in an HIV prison-based peer program, while adding to the criminology literature on female patterns of criminality and rehabilitation. It provides a greater understanding of how prison programs affect the processes of criminal desistance and behavioral changes for female inmates. Women involved in such programming are able to change the criminal trajectory of their life direction.  contributing to reduced levels of recidivism and institutional disciplinary infractions.  The implications for these programs is relevant within the broader perspective of women, HIV and incarceration.      
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Women, Prison and HIV: An Introduction -- Crime Trajectories and Crime Desistance -- Female Offenders and The Inmate Subculture -- The Effects of Prison-Based Programming -- The Success of HIV Prison-Based Peer Programming.

This book highlights a neglected area in the field of rehabilitation of female offenders with AIDS.  It provides data to show how women, working as HIV peer educators in prison, utilize their peer experiences as a transition point for rehabilitation both inside and outside of the penitentiary. HIV and prison are inextricably linked and education has proved to be the one constant that mitigates the spread of both HIV and crime. Research on female inmates in general is not frequent and this book presents unique qualitative data that includes rich accounts from the women themselves. It illustrates the benefits derived by female inmates who work in an HIV prison-based peer program, while adding to the criminology literature on female patterns of criminality and rehabilitation. It provides a greater understanding of how prison programs affect the processes of criminal desistance and behavioral changes for female inmates. Women involved in such programming are able to change the criminal trajectory of their life direction.  contributing to reduced levels of recidivism and institutional disciplinary infractions.  The implications for these programs is relevant within the broader perspective of women, HIV and incarceration.      

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