Young Female Offenders - Trust and Trauma in a Forgotten Population

这项研究旨在探索影响监狱群体中高度精神创伤的年轻女性的信任的因素，以期确定在一个创伤盛行、不信任在社会和文化上根深蒂固的环境中促进信任的方法。信任对于社会运作是必不可少的。违背信任，世界就会变成一个充满敌意、威胁和危险的地方。年轻女性罪犯通常是长期人际、身体和性虐待的受害者，造成严重创伤，严重丧失对人和社会的信任。与这些人密切合作的狱警本身也容易受到二次创伤，进一步阻碍囚犯与工作人员之间的关系。此外，监狱文化中的不信任往往根深蒂固，其基础是更广泛的、从社会学角度了解情况的信仰。因此，康复工作带来了一系列针对性别的重大挑战。

This research aims to explore factors influencing trust in a prison population of highly traumatised young females, with a view to to determining methods of promoting trust in an environment where trauma prevails and distrust is socially and culturally engrained. Trust is essential for social functioning. Violate trust, and the world becomes a hostile, threatening and treacherous place. Young female offenders are commonly victims of chronic interpersonal physical and sexual abuse, resulting in severe traumatisation categorised by an acute loss of trust in people and society. Prison officers working closely with this population are themselves vulnerable to secondary traumatisation, further impeding relations between prisoners and staff. Moreover, distrust is often entrenched in prison culture, with its basis in wider, sociologically informed beliefs. Rehabilitation, therefore, presents a series of significant, gender-specific challenges.