Female Convicts Research Articles

Női elítéltek börtönkörnyezetben. Egy empirikus kutatás tapasztalatai

The author provides an overview of an empirical research conducted in 2011 among 96 female convicts at the Mélykut Department of Pálhalma National Prison in Hungary.

Poverty and Prejudice: Assembling a Picture of the Oral Health of Convicts Sent to Van Diemen’s Land

Abstract The correlation between poor oral health and social and economic disadvantage is a global concern that continues to afflict vulnerable populations. Poverty and its related stresses were also significant factors in the poor oral health experienced by British convicts in the nineteenth century. This article presents an analysis of incidental descriptions of teeth, observed in physical accounts of convicts transported to the penal colonies of Van Diemen’s Land, now known as Tasmania, between the years 1803 and 1853. Coding of these descriptions found a significant disparity in the recorded tooth loss of female convicts when compared to their male counterparts. To interpret these findings and build a better understanding of the oral health status of this cohort, the current study draws on modern medical knowledge, relevant bioarchaeological studies and documented archaeological findings, as well as history of the time. Nutritional deficiencies, smoking, unsanitary living conditions and increased susceptibility to disease are common themes, which we know today, impact on oral disease and tooth loss. A less-expected narrative to emerge from the data reviewed, suggests a gender bias involving the close scrutiny of female appearance. Possible evidence of an historically acknowledged racial bias against those of Irish descent is also suggested in our analysis.

PELAKSANAAN PEMBINAAN TERHADAP NARAPIDANA WANITA DI LEMBAGA PEMASYARAKATAN KELAS IIA BANGKINANG BERDASARKAN PERATURAN PEMERINTAH NOMOR 31 TAHUN 1999 TENTANG PEMBINAAN DAN PEMBIMBINGAN WARGA BINAAN PEMASYARAKATAN

A prisoner is someone who is considered guilty of his actions or deeds and has obtained a court deucision that has permanent legal force so that it can be said to have become a convict or convict, which will then serve his sentence in a detention room or also called a correctional institution. Penitentiary is an institution that aims to provide guidance to convicts, including female convicts. However, there are problems in coaching and mentoring for female convicts in class IIA Bangkinang penitentiary, that coaching and mentoring for female convicts in class IIA Bangkinang penitentiary has not been fully implemented, so this is not in accordance with Law Number 12 of 1995 concerning Corrections and Government Regulation Number 31 of 1999 concerning Guidance and Guidance of Correctional Inmates. The formulation of the problem in this study is how to implement the guidance of female convicts in the Bangkinang class II A penitentiary, what are the obstacles in implementing the guidance of female convicts in the Bangkinang class IIA penitentiary, and how to resolve the implementation of coaching for female convicts in the Bangkinang prison. prison class IIA Bangkinang. This research is a sociological law research, because the type of data used is primary data obtained from informants by interviewing the class IIA Bangkinang prison and questionnaires from female convicts, then secondary data is obtained from library materials and regulations related to the thesis title. . The first result of the research is that the implementation of training for female convicts in class IIA Bangkinang penitentiary has not been fully implemented because the female convicts are only given self-reliance coaching, namely making fish meatballs, fish floss and sweet martabak, while for personality coaching only legal awareness coaching, namely counseling from the Office Kampar Narcotics Agency. The second is that in carrying out coaching for female convicts in the Class IIA Bangkinang penitentiary, there are several obstacles, namely limited female employees, an unstructured location specifically for female convicts, lack of facilities and infrastructure, and no special supervisor from outside the penitentiary.

Female Convict Scorpion: production context, gender politics, and cinematic excesses in a Japanese women-in-prison film series

ABSTRACT This article focuses on Female Convict Scorpion, a Japanese women-in-prison film series (1972–1973), which exemplifies studio-produced exploitation cinema. The series is influenced by the contemporaneous yakuza cycle and its anti-authoritarian social realist agenda. Produced during a time of rapid political-economic-social change in the country, the Female Convict Scorpion series combines exploitative content – the display of nudity, violence, and sensational subjects – with an underlying feminist sensibility, a mixture that embraces the ambiguities of commercial genre cinema. Through close textual analysis, this research explains the contradictions in this women-in-prison series by 1) providing evidence of the female gaze and the subversive narrative tropes, which reveals the feminist subtext in these films, and 2) examining the stylistic and narrative effects of cinematic excesses. This article, thus, re-evaluates these popular genre films as in a time capsule, documenting the significance of their expression of gender politics in 1970s Japan through the distinctive production context and presentation of cinematic excesses.

Women Inmates’ Experiences of Juvenile Delinquency: A Research with Phenomenological Approach

This study is aimed to examine the juvenile delinquency experiences of female prisoners who have committed a crime before the age of 18, were tried and convicted and are still in prison with a phenomenological approach. The working group consists of 10 female convicts in a Women's Closed Penitentiary Institution in Turkey who were involved in a crime when they were under the age of 18 and are still in prison due to this crime. As a data collection tool, a semi-structured interview form developed by the researcher was used. Interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA), one of the qualitative data analysis methods, was used in the analysis of the research data. In this context, the data obtained were examined with a holistic approach, and each participant's data were interpreted separately and evaluated with similar and different aspects. The MAXQDA program was used in the analysis of the data. It was revealed that women's family and friends are effective in their juvenile delinquency and the family relations of the children and the presence of an individual with a criminal history in the family are also among the risk factors. It is determined that women between the ages of 18-25 were driven to juvenile delinquency by their friends over 18, especially when they were between the ages of 14- 16. Delinquency has been evaluated as a negative situation that is seen in children with the effect of family relations and social environment and causes social, psychological and behavioural problems in children.

Legal Study on Fulfilling the Rights of Women Prisoners in Correctional Institutions

Objective: Female prisoners are prisoners who must be given special protection, especially in fulfilling their rights, because they have different natures from men. With such a nature, it becomes the main basis for the need for legal protection for women. However, in essence, these regulations still generally regulate the rights of prisoners, as we know that women will experience conditions that men do not experience, such as menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. So this becomes further research to analyze the fulfillment of the rights of female prisoners in correctional institutions. This research aims to analyze the implementation of fulfilling the rights of female prisoners based on Law Number 22 of 2022 concerning Corrections. Method: This research is a type of normative juridical and sociological juridical research, with the approaches used, namely the statutory approach, case approach, conceptual approach, and comparative approach. By qualitative research methods, in this research, the data analysis used is qualitative research method analysis models. Result: The rights of convicts must be given due attention in prisons, especially female convicts. Remember that there are many things that women experience that men do not experience, such as menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. However, there is still a lack of facilities such as a lactation room for breastfeeding for prisoners who are pregnant, and/or if the child is having a tantrum, this room can be used so as not to disturb the activities of other prisoners. Conclusion: Fulfilling the rights of prisoners is an important aspect of efforts to create better human resources after training in correctional institutions. The rights of convicts must be given due attention in prisons, especially female convicts. However, there is still a lack of facilities such as a lactation room for breastfeeding for prisoners who are pregnant, and/or if the child is having a tantrum, this room can be used so as not to disturb the activities of other prisoners. Apart from that, there are no regulations that specifically regulate the rights of female prisoners who are pregnant, breastfeeding, and with children.

Ženski zapor na Igu, 1956–1967

The article discusses the operation of the women’s correctional facility in Ig in the first ten years of its existence, the living conditions, different forms of re-education work for the convicts and the economic units in which the convicts worked. Female convicts came to Ig in July 1956, specifically to the castle building that had previously housed male convicts. Though the building was partly renovated upon the women’s arrival, it was soon apparent that it could not provide optimal conditions for the accommodation of convicts and re-education work. The view on convicts’ re-education and of the importance of manual labour in re-education started to gradually change in the 1960s. For selected convicts, a less restrictive regime of serving sentences had been introduced as early as the late 1950s.

Дореволюционный опыт воспитательной работы с несовершеннолетними женского пола с девиантным и делинквентным поведением в России

Introduction. The category of convicted girls is not numerous. According to specialists and practitioners, it is one of the most difficult groups in terms of educational training. This fact was underlined in the pre-revolutionary period when organizing the first specialized institutions for this category of people. Even despite the insignificant number of educational and correctional institutions, Russia had a fairly rich experience of educational work with delinquent girls, which was based both on advanced theoretical and practical ideas of organizing the re-education of juvenile offenders abroad and national psychological and pedagogical innovations.
 The purpose of the article is to reveal pre-revolutionary experience (based on of archival materials) of organizing educational work in the first specialized institutions for beggars, vagrants, as well as young female convicts.
 Methodology, methods and techniques. General scientific research methods aimed at collecting, analyzing, systematizing and generalizing data, in particular, the analysis of literary sources directly related to the subject of the study, the study of archival materials were used. The research methodology is based on the characteristics of deviant and delinquent behavior of minors.
 Results. The first orphanage was opened in 1873. There were four of them in Russia, and only the Bolshevsky (Yakovlevsky) orphanage was fully specialized. Two foreign types of re-education of juvenile delinquents were effectively combined in the work with female inmates: the family approach to the organization of the life of inmates and the splitting of inmates into classes and grades according to their achievements in education and in terms of their behavior. In Russia, the key goal of educational work in orphanages was spiritual and moral upbringing of children, which was implemented through school education, labour and religion. The effectiveness of educational work was based on classification of female trainees into groups according to different
 criteria (age, behavioral and character features, progress in studies and work) and motivation to reform the orphanages (monetary rewards, passing from lower to higher groups with better living conditions in the centre, early release from the orphanage). The compulsory vocational training was aimed at helping the girls to find employment after leaving the orphanage. The idea of patronage was developed and implemented, based both on the knowledge of the girls’ individual and psychological characteristics and the degree of rehabilitation by the moment of their leaving the orphanage.
 Scientific novelty. The findings broaden the understanding of educational work with deviant girls in the pre-revolutionary period of Russia.
 Practical significance. The results can be used in the course of training of cadets of educational institutions of higher education of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia.

Problem Çözme Eğitimi Grup Yaşantısının Kadın Hükümlülerin Sosyal Problem Çözme Becerilerine Etkisinin İncelenmesi

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the psycho-education group-based program aimed at improving the social problem-solving skills of female prisoners. The applied program is adopted by Çekici & Güçray (2012) based on the five-stage approach model in social problem-solving (D'zurilla & Nezu, 2007; Nezu et al., 2007). The research is in the semi-experimental design, and one of the types of the experimental design, "real experimental model with pretest-posttest control group" was used. The implementation was carried out with 36 convicts in Karataş Prison in Adana province in the Women's Open Penal Institution. Since the sample did not show a normal distribution, it was evaluated by the Wilcoxon Signed Rows Test, one of the non-parametric analysis methods used to compare the difference between the scores of the two sets of measurements. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the use of a positive orientation-rational problem-solving style to the problem, which is a positive coping style, increased social problem-solving skills in female convicts who participated in social problem-solving group practices, and their use of inattentive and avoidant styles, which are negative orientation to the problem and negative coping styles, decreased. This did not change in the results of the monitoring measurement in which the persistence of the effect was evaluated. The findings were interpreted in light of the literature data.

Role of civil society institutions in promoting law-abiding behavior of female convicts serving a sentence of imprisonment: existential, psychological and penitentiary aspects

Role of civil society institutions in promoting law-abiding behavior of female convicts serving a sentence of imprisonment: existential, psychological and penitentiary aspects

Особенности содержания и лакуны правового регулирования воспитательной работы с женщинами, отбывающими уголовное наказание в виде лишения свободы

The article discusses the factors that cause significant scientific interest in the peculiarities of educational work with females, in respect of whom a criminal penalty in the form of imprisonment is being executed. It is shown that among convicted women, the widespread manifestation of the criminal subculture is not typical. It is shown that the content of the methods of educational work with this category of convicts is deeper, and their list is more diverse in comparison with the methods of such work with convicted men held in correctional institutions. The contradictory role of the psycho-emotional and socio-legal characteristics of convicted women for the effectiveness of the educational impact on them is indicated. Criticism of the absence in the penitentiary legislation of specially designated norms that would regulate educational work with female convicts is presented. Accordingly, in the order de lege ferenda, additions and amendments to Art. 109, 110 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation. It is concluded that there is a connection between the ideas of humanism in the domestic penal policy and a more meaningful penal regulation of educational work with convicted women serving imprisonment.

'Babette Smith, Defiant Voices, how the female convicts challenged authority 1788-1853'

'Babette Smith, Defiant Voices, how the female convicts challenged authority 1788-1853'

Empowering Rehabilitation: An Exploration of Legal Counselling's Role in Female Inmate Assimilation at Indonesian Penitentiaries

This study aims to examine the implementation of community service activities as part of the Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi (Three Pillars of Higher Education) by lecturers, focusing on legal counseling on Islamic law for female inmates at Class II A Tembilahan Penitentiary. The research employs a direct field approach, offering lectures related to Islamic law and providing counseling opportunities. It spans over a period from January 2023 to March 2023. The findings indicate a noticeable increase in legal awareness and a potential for assimilation among female convicts, contributing to their mental development and promoting repentance. These measures are anticipated to result in a deterrent effect, preventing the recurrence of past transgressions. The implications of this research underline the crucial role of academic involvement in penitentiaries, specifically highlighting the impact of integrating the teaching of Islamic law into the rehabilitation of female convicts.
 Highlights:
 
 Implementation of legal counseling by academic lecturers contributes significantly to the increase of legal awareness among female inmates at Class II A Tembilahan Penitentiary.
 Lectures on Islamic law over a three-month period contributed to noticeable mental development and a sense of repentance among the inmates.
 The integration of academic community services in penitentiaries presents a potential deterrent effect and reduces the chances of inmates repeating past transgressions.
 
 Keywords: Legal Counseling, Islamic Law, Female Inmates, Rehabilitation, Assimilation
 
 

Empowering Rehabilitation: An Exploration of Legal Counselling's Role in Female Inmate Assimilation at Indonesian Penitentiaries

This study aims to examine the implementation of community service activities as part of the Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi (Three Pillars of Higher Education) by lecturers, focusing on legal counseling on Islamic law for female inmates at Class II A Tembilahan Penitentiary. The research employs a direct field approach, offering lectures related to Islamic law and providing counseling opportunities. It spans over a period from January 2023 to March 2023. The findings indicate a noticeable increase in legal awareness and a potential for assimilation among female convicts, contributing to their mental development and promoting repentance. These measures are anticipated to result in a deterrent effect, preventing the recurrence of past transgressions. The implications of this research underline the crucial role of academic involvement in penitentiaries, specifically highlighting the impact of integrating the teaching of Islamic law into the rehabilitation of female convicts.
 Highlights:
 
 Implementation of legal counseling by academic lecturers contributes significantly to the increase of legal awareness among female inmates at Class II A Tembilahan Penitentiary.
 Lectures on Islamic law over a three-month period contributed to noticeable mental development and a sense of repentance among the inmates.
 The integration of academic community services in penitentiaries presents a potential deterrent effect and reduces the chances of inmates repeating past transgressions.
 
 Keywords: Legal Counseling, Islamic Law, Female Inmates, Rehabilitation, Assimilation
 
 

The Legal and Psychological Challenges of Female Prisoners in Pakistan

In Pakistan, female prisoners experience a range of difficulties and hindrances that have an impact on both their legal rights and psychological well-being. This study addresses the legal and psychological problems that Pakistani female inmates experience and investigates their causes and effects. A thorough overview of the situation of female prisoners in Pakistan is provided by the research using both qualitative and quantitative data from diverse sources. To solve these problems and better help female convicts, the essay also makes several recommendations to stakeholders and legislators.

Strategies Coping for Female Detainee in Class IIA Women’s Correctional Institutions in Bandung

The purpose of this study was to determine the coping strategies and the results of coping strategies on problem focused coping and emotion focused coping used by female convicts in the Class IIA Women's Penitentiary in Bandung. This study used a qualitative approach with descriptive methods and used interviews, observation and documentation studies for data collection methods. The results of this study are first, the main cause of stress or stressor for prisoners is longing for family. Second, that prisoners more often use coping strategies on emotion focused coping, especially on positive reappraisal aspects as the main coping. Third, using problem focused coping on the aspect of seeking social support. Fourth, the results of using coping strategies are changes in their lives, they can live life better than before.

Криминологические аспекты изучения насильственных пенитенциарных преступлений женщин

The article analyzes the criminological features of violent female penitentiary crime in Russia. Some criminological issues of studying the penitentiary crime of women sentenced to deprivation of liberty are considered. The problem of preventing violence in women’s colonies is the deterioration of the special contingent, the increased number of female convicts prone to aggression, as well as the features of the system of correctional institutions, with their inherent negative criminogenic factors. When studying women’s violent crimes in places of deprivation of liberty, it is necessary to take into account the high level of their latency, the personality traits of convicted women, and the negative conditions of the penitentiary environment. Violence and increased aggression in the territories of women’s colonies is still widespread and well hidden from official registration, a phenomenon that indicates the insufficiency of the securitative system, as well as non-compliance with the law in the conditions of serving a sentence of imprisonment, were, due to objective factors, constant interpersonal conflicts among convicted women. In modern realities, the search for new measures to effectively counter the penitentiary crime of women sentenced to deprivation of liberty is a necessary condition for complying with the main tasks of the penitentiary policy of the Russian Federation - combating violations of the regime and achieving the correction of those sentenced to deprivation of liberty in the process of serving their sentences.

Developmental and Biographical Issues in Radicalization Pathways: A Comparative Case Analysis of Homegrown German Convicts of Islamist Terrorism-Related Offenses

ABSTRACT In this paper, developmental and biographical issues in individual biographical pathways of radicalization are examined from birth through to conviction for Islamist terrorism-related offenses. The source of data was court files of forty-five homegrown Germans convicted of Islamist terrorism-related offenses (age range at the time of the crime: 15 to 38; mean: 24 years, SD: 5; four female convicts). Using coding and constant case comparison techniques, a multiple comparative case analysis was conducted. This article gives an account of what individuals who were later convicted of Islamist terrorism-related offenses experienced in their life course and when. Patterns of relations between the biographical experiences and developmental psychological phases are identified, visually represented, and measured using odds ratios. In particular, the importance of the distinction between the developmental psychological phases of adolescence, emerging adulthood, and adulthood is emphasized and its meaning for radicalization processes is discussed. The interplay of cumulative vulnerabilities and developmental psychological phases are discussed. Guidance is provided on which topics are best addressed in prevention interventions and at what times.

Adolescent growth and convict transportation to nineteenth-century Australia

ABSTRACT This paper explores growth patterns for British and Irish adolescents transported to Australia in the 19th century. During incarceration in Australia, the young convicts did not catch up with contemporary standards of potential stature—contrary to what we are led to expect by the existing literature and the high calorie convict diet. Rather, the experience of transportation stunted the adolescent male convicts. Variation between height on arrival and in later life confirms that teen convicts remained shorter than their shipmates transported after reaching maturity. We consider, but reject, age-dependent selection as a potential explanation. We speculate that the origin of this unfortunate experience lies in the low economic value of young and unskilled males. While fewer data are available for female convicts, their colonial experiences appear to have differed, again consistent with their relative economic value in the colony.

MANAJEMEN PEMBINAAN AGAMA ISLAM NARAPIDANA PEREMPUAN DI LEMBAGA PEMASYARAKATAN PEREMPUAN KELAS III GORONTALO

Management of Islamic Religious Development for Women Convicts. The sub-discussion is how the Management of Islamic Religious Guidance for Female Convicts in Class III Gorontalo Women's Correctional Institution, what are the inhibiting factors for the Islamic Religious Guidance of Female Convicts in Class III Gorontalo Women's Correctional Institution. This research is a qualitative research, while the research approach is a management approach and a sociological approach to religion, data collection techniques using the methods of observation, interviews, and documentation. Based on the results of the study, it was shown that the management of Islamic Religious Development for Female Convicts in the Class III Gorontalo Women's Correctional Institution carried out Islamic Religious Development through several stages of management, 1). Planning of work programs carried out during Islamic Religious Development Organized female prisoners. 2). The organization of Islamic religious development for female prisoners is well structured. 3). Implementation of Islamic religious guidance for female prisoners is a form of application of all planned activities, 3). Supervision of Islamic Religious Development is carried out to oversee the activities in the Women's Correctional Institution, 5). Evaluation in Islamic Religious Guidance for Women Convicts is carried out once a month. Islamic Religious Development which includes: the implementation of the five daily prayers, yasinan, tadarusan, learning iqro, and lectures or tausiah. As for some of the inhibiting factors for fostering the Islamic religion of female prisoners include: lack of facilities in the form of places of worship, then the presence of new inmates who still like to rebel and the lack of understanding of inmates towards religion.