"Women's Mental Health Issues Across the Criminal Justice System" by Rosemary Gido (IUP Libraries)

"Women's Mental Health Issues Across the Criminal Justice System," by Rosemary Gido, is dedicated to giving the most invisible offenders in todays criminal justice systemmentally ill adolescent girls and womena face and a voice. The book is organized around the subsystems of the U.S. criminal justice system. Each section highlights mental health research and policy issues and focuses on the impediments to treatment and service delivery as well as the model programs, assessments, and intervention processes that offer hope within and across the system. Presented at IUP.

Rosemary Gido is professor and intern coordinator in the Department of Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is editor of "The Prison Journal," and serves as director for the Center for Research in Criminology. Her latest research focuses on the sociological study of immigrants and coal mining communities in central Montana and historical reenactments of mining and homesteading women from early twentieth-century Montana. Read more about "Women's Mental Health Issues Across the Criminal Justice System" here: http://www.amazon.com/Womens-Mental-Criminal-Justice-Prentice/dp/0132435357

The Breakfast-and-a-Book speaker series features IUP faculty members discussing their published books with the university community. Thank you to the IUP Libraries for providing this video: http://www.iup.edu/home.aspx?id=4923&utm_campaign=social_media&utm_me...

IUP Department of Criminology: http://www.iup.edu/home.aspx?id=2995&utm_campaign=social_media&utm_me...

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[barbarabell2011]

Thanks for this video, I am studying criminal justice and this will assist me greatly in my research.

[buntydkat]

dr. gido knows her material.