Scientific studies in criminology mainly neglect the criminality of women, especially perspective women prisoners. The aim qualitative research was to examine experience imprisonment and institutional treatment for female Data were collected using a semi-structured interview with 10 prisoners penitentiary Croatia. Research questions focused on stay prison, treatment, perceived changes, suggesti...

Resilience is an individual's ability to adapt positively, be able survive and remain stable healthy when facing unpleasant risky conditions, such as Covid-19 pandemic. This study describe the resilience of female inmates who are survivors at Pekanbaru Women's Correctional Institution. In addition, this aims determine sources in prisoners survived Institution improve capabilities prisoners. The...

Introduction: Stigma and discrimination are more common among women affect the development of coping skills for with HIV. Research related to strategies prisoners HIV in prisons is still very limited. This study aimed identify positive methods used reasons using these dealing stigma against female inmates HIV.Methods: research method a qualitative descriptive phenomenological design. The popula...

kharijite as one of the groups in the first and second centuries, had a respectively certain attitude toward women. they have offered quite different views of woman and her participation in social and political issues including, marriage, treatment toward female prisoners, women in battles and women caliphate, which took influence of looking at surface and appearance of quran and ideas of peopl...

BACKGROUND Health-state utilities for prisoners have not been described. METHODS We used data from a 1996 cross-sectional survey of Australian prisoners (n = 734). Respondent-level SF-36 data was transformed into utility scores by both the SF-6D and Nichol's method. Socio-demographic and clinical predictors of SF-6D utility were assessed in univariate analyses and a multivariate general linea...

The literature on prison effects is characterised by a focus on negative outcomes. There is a need to acknowledge individual differences. The theme of posttraumatic growth emerged in a subsample of interviews from a study on psychological adjustment in prison. The narratives of this subsample (six female, first-time prisoners) were used to explore the phenomenon of posttraumatic growth during i...

BACKGROUND Peer interventions involving prisoners in delivering peer education and peer support in a prison setting can address health need and add capacity for health services operating in this setting. This paper reports on a qualitative synthesis conducted as part of a systematic review of prison-based peer interventions. One of the review questions aimed to investigate the positive and nega...

Community reintegration of ex-prisoners is an important issue in efforts to reduce recidivism. The present study examined the multiple, complex, and dynamic nature of variables influencing successful reintegration by assessing the type and degree of change in reintegration variables over time. Participants were 79 adult prisoners (54 male, 25 female) who completed a prerelease questionnaire 1 m...