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Summary: This brief Submission to the UN Study on
Violence Against Children seeks to draw the
Study’s attention to the vulnerability to
violence of girls in prison and other forms of
detention.In 2003, the organisation began research on women in prison. The aims
were to better understand why increasing numbers of women are being
imprisoned, identify the conditions in which women prisoners are kept
around the world, and draw attention to the particular impact that
imprisonment has on women. In July 2004, we published Women in Prison
and Children of Imprisoned Mothers: A Preliminary Research Paper.
In looking into the situation of women in prison, we have become aware
that, whilst women’s needs are generally overlooked in the penal system,
the needs of girls (that is, females under the age of 18 years) are even
more so.
This brief Submission to the UN Study on Violence Against Children seeks
to draw the Study’s attention to the vulnerability to violence of girls in
prison and other forms of detention.
pdf: www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/violence/violence_against_girls...