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Taking Risks: Incorporating Gender and Culture into the Classification and Assessment of Federally Sentenced Women in Canada

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ACRONYMS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

1. LITERATURE REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS
   The Evolution of Modern Classification
   Classifying Women: International Developments
   Gender and Cultural Differences in Crime
   Correctional Research Initiatives
   
   
2. CLASSIFICATION IN CANADA AND FEDERALLY SENTENCED WOMEN
   Legal Requirements
   Federally Sentenced Women
   The Federally Sentenced Women's Program: Attempting to Construct a Woman-Centred Classification System
   Current State of Research
   
   
3. FEDERALLY SENTENCED WOMEN'S FACILITIES: INSTITUTIONAL VISITS AND CONSULTATIONS
   The Context of Practice
   The Classification and Assessment Process
   Staff Views on the Assessment Process
   
   
4. NON-INSTITUTIONAL CONSULTATIONS
   The Workshop Report
   Office of the Correctional Investigator
   Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
   Local Elizabeth Fry Societies
   
   
5. OTHER ISSUES
   Pressure to Be More Like Men's Institutions
   Maximum Security Women and Mental Health
   Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women
   Methodological Issues: Validating Tools for Women
   
   
6. UNRESOLVED ISSUES: CONSIDERATIONS FOR DEVELOPING AN ALTERNATIVE
   
   
7. CONCLUSIONS
   A Need for a Gender- and Ethno-Culturally Sensitive Alternative
   Institutional Processes, Training and Systemic Concerns
   Organizational Structure
   Healing Lodge, Aboriginal Women and Diversity
   Corrections and Conditional Release Act and Legal Framework
   
   

APPENDIX A: WORKSHOP ON GENDER DIVERSITY AND RISK

REFERENCES

ENDNOTES

LIST OF ACRONYMS

APAC
Assessment Programme Assignment Committee
APR
Accelerated Parole Release
BIFA
Black Inmates and Friends Assembly
CAEFS
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
CCJA
Canadian Criminal Justice Association
CCRA
Corrections and Conditional Release Act
CEIP
Comité des évaluations et d'identification des programmes
CMS
Case Management Strategy
CNIA
Case Needs Identification and Analysis
CRS
Custody Rating Scale
CSC
Correctional Service Canada
EIFW
Edmonton Institution for Women, Alberta
GAO
General Accountancy Office (United States)
GVI
Grand Valley Institution, Kitchener, Ontario
HL
Healing Lodge
IAO
Intake Assessment Officer
LEAF
Legal Education Action Fund
LSI
Level of Service Inventory
NAC
National Action Committee on the Status of Women
NWAC
Native Women's Association of Canada
OCI
Office of the Correctional Investigator
OIA
Offender Intake Assessment
OMRB
Offender Management Review Board
P4W
Prison for Women, Kingston, Ontario
SIS
Strength in Sisterhood
SOP
Standard operating practice
WCA
Women-Centred Assessment