Aspects regarding the hope for successful reintegration of female detainees.

Aim: We investigated in the female inmate population whether they had and which were the foundations of hope for a better future after liberation.

Materials And Methods: We created and applied a questionnaire structured on four general information chapters regarding health, attitude and spiritual life. In total, 67 questions with 293 items.

Women criminality--the influence of socio-familial history and status.

Our interdisciplinary study aims at the influence of social and familial history and status in a sample of Romanian female offenders. We collected data regarding the social and familial environment and status in the moment of committing a crime from 235 women incarcerated in four Romanian prisons. We applied a 67 item questionnaire conceived by the members of the research group.