Gender-Responsive Corrections
Definition
An approach to designing and running correctional institutions that starts from women's distinct pathways into custody, health needs, and caregiving responsibilities, rather than adapting facilities and rules built for men.
Related terms
- Bangkok Rules
- The United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders, adopted by the UN General Assembly...
- Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
- The central statute, originally enacted as the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, 1956 and renamed by a 1986...
- Protective Home
- A residential institution established or licensed by a State Government under Section 21 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, to hold...
- Vigilance Home
- A short-term, state-run custodial and counselling facility used by some State Governments to hold a woman apprehended in circumstances suggesting trafficking or...
- Women's Jail
- A prison, or a separate ward within a general prison, holding women convicted or under trial for criminal offences, administered under state...
- Children in Custody
- The legal position of a child living with an incarcerated mother, settled by the Supreme Court in R.D. Upadhyay v. State of...
Explained in these topics
- Vigilance Homes and Protective Homes for Women (UGC-NET Unit VIII)An approach to correctional design that starts from women's distinct pathways into custody and caregiving needs, rather than adapting facilities built for men.
- Women's Correctional Institutions and Gender-Responsive Corrections