What is it about?
Kenya Probation and Aftercare Service partnered with Penal Reform International to create a project to firstly, understand the experience of women in the Kenyan justice system, and then secondly, to use this evidence to adapt national pre-trial assessment guidance and tools, in order to create a more gender-sensitive approach. This new approach was then piloted in two counties in Kenya. This paper evaluates the project using in-country interviews and desk based research, concluding with several positive findings.
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Why is it important?
Projects exploring the implementation of international standards on gender in the justice sector, such as the UN Bangkok Rules, are still relatively rare and most studies that do investigate this area focus on women in detention. Attempts to implement the UN Bangkok rules in pre-trial and probation are practically unprecedented and therefore this evaluation breaks new ground, globally.
Perspectives
I initially evaluated this Penal Reform International project as a consultant, and this paper is based on the findings but repurposed and expanded on for an academic audience. It was a pleasure to interview many members of the Kenya Probation and Aftercare Service, as well as several international experts in the field.
Omar Phoenix Khan
University of Westminster
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This page is a summary of: Introducing a gender-sensitive approach to pre-trial assessment and probation, Probation Journal, April 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0264550518771167.
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