Topics:
Education & Child Care
Economic Security
Mental Health
Youth and Adolescent Development
Gender Violence
Society & Leadership
Programs:
Jean Baker Miller Training Institute
Justice and Gender-Based Violence Research Initiative
National SEED Project
National Institute on Out-of-School Time
Open Circle
Work, Families and Children
A Strategic Plan for Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) for Women: Lessons from Abroad (2012)
Publications / Publications by title
Achieving Gendered Justice Developing Substantive Research & Action Strategies for Justice-Involved Women (2015)
All Projects / Active Projects
Activists ask Mass. lawmakers to consider community sentences (2015)
Recent coverage / 2015
Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI): Promising Practices in Massachusetts (2012)
Bail System Punishes the Poor and Costs the Taxpayers Millions (2016)
Recent coverage / 2016
Criminal justice reform at pre-trial stage discussed at public meeting 11/13 (2013)
Earlier / 2013
Effects of Postsecondary Education on Low-income Women (2008)
All Projects / Archived Projects
Erika Kates, Ph. D.: Expanding Options for Female Offenders: A Project to Identify Community-Based Resources in Massachusetts (2010)
Audio / Audio Earlier
Erika Kates, Ph.D. (2007)
Active Researchers / Senior Scholars
Erika Kates, Ph.D., Joins Wellesley Centers for Women as Senior Research Scientist (2008)
Earlier / 2008
Executive Summary: Exploring Alternatives to Incarceration for Women in MA (2011)
For women convicts, state needs better alternatives to jail (2012)
Recent coverage / 2012
Past years / 2012
Gender and Justice Project on Female Offenders (2009)
Gender and Justice Report on Female Offenders Released (2013)
Recent coverage / 2013
Higher Education for Low-Income Women: Advocacy at State and National Levels (1987)
Letter to the Editor: The Bail System and Its Injustices (2017)
Recent coverage / 2017
Lunchtime Seminar: Expanding Options for Female Offenders: A Project to Identify Community-Based Resources in Massachusetts (2010)
Earlier / 2010
Massachusetts Women’s Justice Network Activities and Advisory Group Members, 2011-2012 (2011)
Mothers Seeking Substance Abuse Services: Analysis Including Justice-Involved Women (2015)
Audio / Audio 2015
Moving Beyond Incarceration for Women in Massachusetts: The Necessity of Bail/Pretrial Reform (2015)
Moving Beyond Prisons: An Action Platform to Address Women's Needs in Massachusetts (2014)
Audio / Audio 2014
Moving Beyond Prisons: An Action Platform to Address Women’s Needs in Massachusetts--3/27 Seminar (2014)
For the media / 2014
Overview of Key Concerns for Women Offenders and Projects, 2009-2012 (2009)
Pretrial Reform: The Potential Role of the Office of Community Corrections (OCC) for Justice-involved Women in Massachusetts (2015)
Promising Gender-Responsive, Community-Based Programs for Female Offenders in Massachusetts (2012)
Q & A with Erika Kates, Ph.D.: Building a Women's Justice Network in Massachusetts (2014)
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2014
Q&A with Erika Kates: A New Staff Partnership Studies Justice for Victims, Justice for Offenders, and Economic Justice (2008)
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2008
Report: Exploring Alternative to Incarceration for Women in MA (2011)
Response: Why Are So Many Black Women Dying of AIDS? (2015)
Opinion / 2015
Review of Massachusetts Corrections Master Plan (CMP): Focus on Women (2012)
Risk-Needs Assessments Appropriate for Women Offenders (2012)
Sheriff Cabral Attends Report Release At State House (2010)
Recent coverage / 2010
State Court Tips Genderwise; Asian Pol Says Rape OK (2013)
The High Cost of Incarcerating Women (2015)
The Massachusetts Women's Justice Network (2009)
Tracking Economic Inequities Among Women (2009)
Treatment no longer behind bars (2016)
Why Bail Jails Are a Bad Idea (2014)
Recent coverage / 2014
Women in Prison and Family Connection (2003)
Women-Centered Training for Practitioners Working with Female Offenders (2012)
