TY - JOUR
T1 - Health and social care services for women offenders
T2 - current provision and a future model of care
AU - Bartlett, Annie
AU - Walker, Tammi
AU - Harty, Mari Anne
AU - Abel, Kathryn M.
PY - 2014/8/20
Y1 - 2014/8/20
N2 - Secure provision for women in both the Criminal Justice System and the Health Service has evolved in the last decade, in line with emerging gender-specific policy. Notable gains have been the approach to self-harm in prison and a reduction in the inappropriately high levels of secure hospital care. Although treatment pilots in UK settings are in progress, much practice remains poorly described and insufficiently evaluated. Recent strategic initiatives by both the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Health, as well as the commissioning changes that have followed the Health and Social Care Act 2012, provide a basis for reconsideration and a further paradigm shift. Suggestions for a reinvigorated model of gender-sensitive provision are made, relying on principles of resilience and autonomy.
AB - Secure provision for women in both the Criminal Justice System and the Health Service has evolved in the last decade, in line with emerging gender-specific policy. Notable gains have been the approach to self-harm in prison and a reduction in the inappropriately high levels of secure hospital care. Although treatment pilots in UK settings are in progress, much practice remains poorly described and insufficiently evaluated. Recent strategic initiatives by both the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Health, as well as the commissioning changes that have followed the Health and Social Care Act 2012, provide a basis for reconsideration and a further paradigm shift. Suggestions for a reinvigorated model of gender-sensitive provision are made, relying on principles of resilience and autonomy.
KW - gender
KW - mentally disordered offenders
KW - prisoners
KW - secure units
KW - women offenders
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85027922158&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14789949.2014.944202
DO - 10.1080/14789949.2014.944202
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85027922158
VL - 25
SP - 625
EP - 635
JO - Journal of Forensic Psychiatry
JF - Journal of Forensic Psychiatry
SN - 1478-9949
IS - 6
ER -
