Women making meaning of their desistance from offending: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

It is recognised that women who have offended comprise a vulnerable group having commonly experienced trauma and abuse. However, the dominant risk paradigm and assessment tools used within the Criminal Justice System have excluded women offenders in the research base. Similarly, current approaches t...

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Autor principal: GOMM, REBECCA,MARIA (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
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Publicado: 2016
En:Año: 2016
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