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Current Issues in Criminal Justice Volume 22, 2010 - Issue 2: Beyond Prison: Women, Incarceration and Justice?
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Assisting and Supporting Women Released from Prison: Is Mentoring the Answer?

Mark Brown Mark Brown teaches criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He has written on a number of aspects of punishment, penal history and theory. He is currently engaged in research projects on the process of desistance from offending, on the modern history of the prison in Australia, on the jurisprudence of offender risk and is writing a book on penal power and colonial rule in India.
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Stuart Ross Stuart Ross is a Senior Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences. His research interests include sentencing decision making, criminal justice population modelling, and the evaluation of criminal justice programs. His recent work includes evaluations of release transition programs, court programs and the development of an instrument for assessing risk and need in Victorian prisoners and offenders.
Pages 217-232 | Published online: 30 Nov 2018

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Mayra Lopez-Humphreys & Barbra Teater. (2020) “It’s What’s on the Inside That Counts”: A Pilot Study of the Subjective Changes among Returned Citizens Participating in a Peer-Mentor Support Initiative. Journal of Social Service Research 46:6, pages 741-755.
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Emma Wincup. (2019) Living ‘good lives’: using mentoring to support desistance and recovery. Addiction Research & Theory 27:1, pages 37-46.
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Chris Trotter, Gill McIvor & Rosemary Sheehan. (2012) The Effectiveness of Support and Rehabilitation Services for Women Offenders. Australian Social Work 65:1, pages 6-20.
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