Women on Parole: Case Studies of 98 Female Offenders
Abstract
Crime has long been a social problem and correctional motives have run the gamut from retribution, deterrence, incapacitation and individual intimidation to reformation. Today, concern about crime is a response to its reported size and severity and to its movement from the Black ghetto and inner-city to White suburbia and college campuses. President Nixon's federal budget for fiscal year 1972 proposes a 35% increase in outlays to improve law enforcement, to make our judicial system fairer and more efficient, and to raise the effectiveness of correction and rehabilitation by developing more innovative correctional institutions and improving probation and parole services. It appears that the cries of "law and order" have been heard. Whether increased spending for community safety and crime prevention will result in stricter controls and more repressions or in the formation and implementation of a truly rehabilitative system depends partially on the daring and expertise of the leaders and workers in the field of corrections. In order for the practitioners to make any impact they must have the scientific knowledge provided by researchers.
Subject Area
Social structure|Criminology|Social work
Recommended Citation
Lonigan, Loretta Endter, "Women on Parole: Case Studies of 98 Female Offenders" (1971). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31189687.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31189687
