Gender-Responsive Strategies Research, Practice, and Guiding Principles for Women Offenders

By Barbara E. Bloom, B. Owen, S. Covington. 2003

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The Predictive Validity of a Gender-Responsive Needs Assessment (2009, background): “The emerging literature on gender-responsive strategies for women offenders (Berman, 2005; Bloom et al., 2003) offers much support for the belief that had we started with women, the current generation of risk or needs assessments might look quite different from the status quo.”
Reentry and the (Unmet) Needs of Women (2010, background): “Female offenders are often young, poor mothers who lack education, job skills, or a stable employment history, and whose lives have been characterized by patterns of abuse and addiction (Arditti, 2006 ; Berman, 2005 ; Bloom, Owen, & Covington, 2003 ; Richie, 2001 ).”
The Relational Theory of Women's Psychological Development: Implications for the Criminal Justice System (2007, background): “A national profile outlines the following characteristics of women offenders (Bloom, Owen, and Covington, 2003): • Disproportionately women of color • In their early-to-mid-thirties • Most likely to have been convicted of a drug or drug related offense • Fragmented family histories, with other…”
Sacrosanct or Flawed: Risk, Accountability and Gender- Responsive Penal Politics (2010, methodology): “The document operationalised the concept of gender responsiveness and set out best practices in women’s corrections, which the authors refined in subsequent articles (Bloom 2003a; Bloom et al. 2003; Covington and Bloom 2006).”
“Getting Gut-Level” (2008, background): “Feminist criminologists developed gender-responsive treatment models in response to concerns about the “equality with a vengeance” era (Bloom, Owen, and Covington 2003), in which strategies and programs developed in men’s prisons were applied to women’s, often resulting in even worse treatment.”
Actuarial Sentencing: An “Unsettled” Proposition (2013, background): “…involvement in drug and property crimes, patterns of substance abuse, and how factors such as drug use are connected in gender-specific ways to initial and continued prostitution and other crimes (e.g. Bloom et al., 2003; Clarke Robbins, Monahan, & Silver, 2003; Heimer & Kruttschnitt, 2006).”
Predicting the Prison Misconducts of Women Offenders (2007, background): “Research indicates that women are more relational than men and tend to place great emphasis on the importance of developing and maintaining healthy and supportive relationships with others in their lives (Bloom et al., 2003).”
Gendered Pathways (2009, background): “Although it is true that both male and female offenders struggle with addiction at high rates, the gender-responsive paradigm interprets a woman’s substance abuse history as a possible coping mechanism for handling mental illness, perhaps as a result of suffering from abusive experiences (Bloom et a”
If One Doesn’t Get You Another One Will (2012, result): “Therefore, in regard to stigma and discrimination, these findings support the assertion that women returning home from prison must overcome more issues than their male counterparts (see for example, Bloom et al., 2003; O’Brien, 2001; Richie, 2001; van Olphen et al., 2009).”
Reentry and Renegotiating Motherhood (2009, methodology): “Studies based on the pathways perspective, as described in Bloom, Owen, and Covington (2003) explain the relationship between certain histories (personal abuse and trauma, family instability, mental illness, substance abuse, troubled relationships, and criminal involvement) and economic and social…”
Women Coming Home: Long‐Term Patterns of Recidivism (2010, background): “This research suggests that correctional institutions are either managed based on policies developed for male offenders or procedure is couched based on outdated, stereotypic assumptions of female criminality (Belknap, 2007; Bloom et al., 2003; Pollock, 2002b).”
Achieving Accurate Pictures of Risk and Identifying Gender Responsive Needs: Two New Assessments for Women Offenders 1 (2008, background): “…Bloom, Owen, & Covington, 2003; McClellan, Farabee, & Crouch, 1997; Peters, Strozier, Murrin, & Kearns, 1997), as are phobic diagnoses (Blume, 1997), and co-occuring diagnoses such as depression and substance abuse (Bloom et al., 2003; Blume, 1997; Holtfreter & Morash, 2003; Owen & Bloom, 1995).”
Men, Women, and Postrelease Offending (2012, background): “The results also speak to the importance of developing genderresponsive programs and services that acknowledge the differences between male and female offenders to reduce their risk of subsequent offending (Bloom et al., 2003).”
Gender Differences and Offender Reentry: A Review of the Literature (2009, background): “The increase in women's involvement with the criminal justice system since the 1980s, however, has spurred investigation into women's unique needs and the development and evaluation of gender-responsive programs designed to facilitate women's successful reintegration (Covington & Bloom, 2003 ; Sydn”
Engendering the Evidence Base: A Critical Review of the Conceptual and Empirical Foundations of Gender-Responsive Interventions for Girls’ Delinquency (2013, background): “ Bloom, Owen and Covington [20] o Acknowledge that gender makes a difference o Develop policies, practices and programs that are relational and promote healthy connections”