Focus on Female Offenders: The Real Women Programme - Probation Service Pilot
- ISBN-10
- 1844731669
- ISBN-13
- 9781844731664
- Pages
- 16
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Home Office, Research, Development and Sttistics Directorate
- Authors
- Great Britain. Home Office. Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, Jorgen Lovbakke
Description
This report presents a mainly positive evaluation of the pilot of the Real Women Programme, a group work programme designed for acquisitive female offenders. It was commissioned by the National Probation Directorate to address the needs of a large number of women serving a community sentence for an acquisitive offence [i.e. theft, fraud], and to address concerns about existing offending behaviour programmes, designed for men, being used with female offenders. The programme consists of 31 sessions divided into three phases. It uses a variety of approaches and novel techniques to address the offenders' relationships, roles, duties, self esteem, and problem-solving skills with specific relevance to the role of women in society. The Group of Five, a set of five composite women profiles, used in the programme are the result of morphing profiles of a large number of real female offenders (from Canada), and as such are not fictional characters.
