There's no place like home: an empirical test of the safe haven hypothesis.
Corrections Compendium › Vol. 28 Nbr. 1, January 2003
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There's no place like home: an empirical test of the safe haven hypothesis.
Editor's Note: This article was presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Anaheim, Calif., March 7, 2002.
Despite the dramatic decline in crime in the United States during the past decade, one area of criminal justice remains a topic of significant concern: The processes and institutions by which the United States punishes lawbreakers are aspects of its social response to crime that continue to present criminologists with challenging research problems. While an impressive amount of research has established a solid body of knowledge regarding the phenomenon of incarcerated men, a similar understanding of the experiences and realities of incarcerated women does not exist. Due, in part, to their significantly lower representation in the overall correctional population, women in prison have often enjoyed only the "leftovers" of resources and research attention. While this disproportion has begun to change in recent years, there still remain significant debates among researchers regarding the needs of women in prison, as well as the most appropriate frameworks for meeting them. One such debate has centered on the purpose served by incarcerating minority women. In particular, this debate considers the value of prison time, especially short-term incarceration, for those women whose lives are complicated by addictions, financial difficulties, and social and emotional burdens. This issue has been addressed most clearly by Zelma Weston-Henriques and Delores Jones-Brown (2001), who have proposed what has been referred to as the safe haven h...See the full content of this document
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