By Kimberly Collica

​ ​This e-book highlights a ignored sector within the box of rehabilitation of girl offenders with AIDS. It offers information to teach how ladies, operating as HIV peer educators in felony, make the most of their peer reports as a transition element for rehabilitation either in and out of the prison. HIV and criminal are inextricably associated and schooling has proved to be the single consistent that mitigates the unfold of either HIV and crime. examine on lady inmates normally isn't widespread and this ebook offers particular qualitative facts that incorporates wealthy money owed from the ladies themselves. It illustrates the advantages derived by way of lady inmates who paintings in an HIV prison-based peer application, whereas including to the criminology literature on woman styles of illegal activity and rehabilitation. It offers a better knowing of ways felony courses have an effect on the methods of felony desistance and behavioral adjustments for woman inmates. ladies taken with such programming may be able to switch the felony trajectory in their existence course. contributing to lowered degrees of recidivism and institutional disciplinary infractions. the consequences for those courses is proper in the broader standpoint of girls, HIV and incarceration. ​

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Strong family relationships appear particularly important in controlling deviant behavior among adolescent girls (Sepsi, 1974). Attachment to parents was a strong predictor of criminal behavior for both males and females, but it was stronger in preventing violent crimes among women (Alarid, Burton, & Cullen, 2000). The child–parental bond has an effect on both male and female crime trajectories. , they have strong emotional attachments to their parents and they spend quality time with their parents) are less likely to engage in delinquent behavior when compared to children who have poor relationships with their parents (Worthen, 2011).

A way to deal with this grief is to try and re-create that lost family in prison. This can include the development of consensual same sex relationships, in which one inmate will portray the father figure, typically known as the butch or aggressor, and one inmate will portray the mother figure, typically known as the femme. Jail-parents can assist their jail-children in adapting to the inmate subculture and they may prevent them from engaging in troublesome behaviors, while also teaching them how to navigate the prison environment.

66). Working in programs like ACE/CARE allows the peers to form conventional relationships and attachments, and it helps to prevent one from becoming “institutionalized” or “prisonized,” which can hamper rates of institutional and post-release success. The process of “prisionization” or “institutionalization” can beget maladjustment problems, hence increasing disciplinary infractions during incarceration and decreasing levels of success upon release. ” By cultivating strong conventional attachments and strong networks of support, which begin behind the walls but continue outside of them, the women of ACE/CARE can easily adopt the role of the “wounded healer” or “professional ex” and be supported, unconditionally, in their new conventional role.

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