This book offers a ground-breaking research on socioeducative field. The authors address different realities of women in prison in relation to drugs: non-addicted, active-addicted, addicted under methadone treatment, and ex-addicted.
The book also discusses many life stories of women. The reader will observe different risk situations in these life stories that lead these women to commit crime and being imprisoned. Additionally, the authors analyse life in prison, strategies for future reintegration, and weaknesses of the intervention programs.
They emphasise as well the importance of protection factor as the basis for resilience and possibility of facing their reality and improve it.
Summarising, this accessible and interesting book will provide the scientific community and society in general with very  valuable information. It offers several comprehensive suggestions of socioeducative action for penal politics and professionals.

CONTENTS EXTRACT

Foreword, Javier Nistal Burón.
Introduction: methodology and context of the project.
Women in Spanish prisons.
Characteristics of women in prisons.
Life before imprisonment and reality of prison.
Intervention in prison: impact.
Afterword and suggestions for action.
Annex: women and professionals’ surveys.

Fanny T. Añaños-Bedriñana, professor of the Department of Pedagogy, at Universidad de Granada. She is also researcher of the Institute of Peace and Conflict (IPAZ, for its initials in Spanish), at the same university. Her teaching, research, and work are on different fields of Pedagogy and Social Education: drug addiction, education for peace and equality, poverty and exclusion, etc. In this book, she leads a group of fourteen interdisciplinary experts who belong to different organizations
in Spain and Latin America.