Research Catalog

Title

The female offender, by Walter C. Reckless and Barbara Ann Kay. Submitted to the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice.

Author

Reckless, Walter C., 1899-1988.

Publication

[Washington] 1967.

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Additional Authors

• Kay, Barbara A.
• United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice

Description

41 p.; 28 cm.

Summary

The known or suspected dimensions of officially acted-upon involvement of women and girls in crime and delinquency should be reviewed, in order to sense whether the available information offers guidelines for a realistic policy in handling the female offender throughout the length and breadth of the legal and correctional process. The outstanding research studies on the female offender, although extremely scarce, should also be reviewed to see whether they contain any guidelines for policy. In developing a rationale for effective, justifiable handling of the officially acted-upon female offender, it is important to develop a totally integrated policy all the way along the line of the leg-correction procedures from arrest to parole, which policy is just not concentrated on the terminal phases of these procedures, such as probation, institutionalization, and release.

Subject

Female offenders > United States

Note

• Cover title.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Available statistical soundings on the adult female offender -- Available statistical soundings on the adult juvenile delinquent -- Reasons for differential under-involvement of the adult female offender -- A special reason for the officially acted-upon involvement of girls in delinquency -- A rationale for diversion of female offenders -- The implementation of diversion step by step -- Suggestions for implementation of diversion -- Major summary of suggestions.

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