%0 Journal Article
%T Women and crime: imprisonment issues
%J Trends and issues in crime and criminal justice
%D 1992
%A Easteal, Patricia Weiser
%V 35
%N 
%P -
%X The number of women in Australian prisons has increased significantly over the past decade. Easteal provides a brief profile of the sociodemographic and sentence background of women in prison. She highlights the issues affecting female inmates: illegal drugs; high security prisons and intermingling of security levels; officer prisoner relations; lesbianism and the inmate hierarchy; medical care; counselling; drug withdrawal; suicide and self inflicted injuries; work and education opportunities; family visits; and children. Recommendations for improving prison conditions are outlined.<p />
%G en
%I Australian Institute of Criminology
%@ 0817-8542
%U http://dx.doi.org/