Womens access to welfare after prison - an international comparison

拟议研究的目的是对女性囚犯重返社会后获得的服务以及这些服务减少再犯罪的潜力进行比较分析。这项分析将建立在维多利亚目前的ARC项目和苏格兰的一个类似项目的基础上。苏格兰和维多利亚为比较研究提供了一个有趣的焦点，在过去十年中，苏格兰和维多利亚拥有相似的人口，相似的女性监禁人数和相似的每日女性监狱人口增长。此外，在这两个司法管辖区，都采取了一些举措，以加强妇女在出狱时获得服务的机会。 拟议研究的目的是制定和实施一个框架，对苏格兰和维多利亚的两项资助研究产生的关于妇女入狱后经历的数据进行比较分析。

The aim of the proposed research is to undertake an comparative analysis of the services accessed by female prisoners following their return to the community and the potential of these services to reduce re-offending. This analysis will build upon the current ARC project in Victoria and a similar project in Scotland. Scotland and Victoria provide an interesting focus for comparative research, having similar populations, similar numbers of women imprisoned and similar increases during the last decade in the daily female prison population. Moreover in both jurisdictions initiatives are being introduced to enhance women's access to services when they leave prison. The purpose of the proposed research will be to develop and implement a framework for the comparative analysis of data on women's experiences after prison that will be generated by two funded studies in Scotland and Victoria.