The Routledge Handbook of Women's Experiences of Criminal Justice

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-06430-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 592 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1190 g

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

This Handbook brings together the voices of a range of contributors interested in the many varied experiences of women in criminal justice systems, and who are seeking to challenge the status quo.

Although there is increasing literature and research on gender, and certain aspects of the criminal justice system (often Western focused), there is a significant gap in the form of a Handbook that brings together these important gendered conversations. This essential book explores research and theory on how women are perceived, handled, and experience criminal justice within and across different jurisdictions, with particular consideration of gendered and disparate treatment of women as law-breakers. There is also consideration of women’s experiences through an intersectional lens, including race and class, as well as feminist scholarship and activism. The Handbook contains 47 unique chapters with nine overarching themes (Lessons from history and theory; Routes into the criminal justice system; Intersectionality; Sentencing and the courts and community punishments; Specific offences; Incarcerated women’s experiences; Mothers and families; Rehabilitation and reintegration; Practitioner relationships), and each theme includes contributions from different countries as well as the experiences of contributors from different stages in their own journey.

International and interdisciplinary in scope, this Handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of criminology, sociology, social policy, social work, and law. It will also be of interest to practitioners, such as social workers, probation officers, prison officers, and policy makers.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Masson, Isla

Booth, Natalie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Womanhood as Weakness, or Why Witches Were Witches

Trace M Maddox

- Infanticide Cases, Expert Evidence, and the Sympathetic Jury, in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century England

Rachel Dixon

- ‘Completely innocent or wholly culpable’: Judicial outcomes of women tried for homicide in pre-modern England

Stephanie Brown

- Shifting trends and discourses in women’s imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand

Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour and Kirsten Gibson

- Criminalised Women and the Risk Lens

Hazel Kemshall

- Women’s desistance: A review of the literature through a gendered lens

Madeline Pertrillo

- Perpetrators and Victims: Women, double deviance, and the criminal justice system

Vicky Seaman and Orla Lynch

- "She Should Have Known": Oversimplified narratives of the victim-offender cycle within women human trafficking ‘offenders’

Alexandra L. A. Baxter

- Care-Experienced Women in the Criminal Justice System

Claire Fitzpatrick, Jo Staines and Katie Hunter

- Family violence, homelessness and criminalised women: accounting for systemic violence in the Australian post-release milieu

Rebecca Bunn and Elisa Buggy

- Domestic abuse as a driver to women’s offending

Jo Roberts

- Muslim Women Moving on from Crime

Sofia Buncy, Alexandria Bradley and Sarah Goodwin

- Making visible the invisibalised voices of criminalised women in Australia

Debbie Kilroy and Tabitha Lean

- Women, Religion and Criminal Justice in Ireland

Lynsey Black

- Women’s Experiences of Criminal Justice System in Pursuit of Inheritance: Voices from Pakistan

Iram Rubab

- Lived Realities of Spouses of Incarcerated Husbands in India

Rashmi Choudhury

- Lesbian Experiences of the Criminal Justice System: A Practitioner Perspective

Kath Wilson

- At the intersection of disadvantage, disillusionment and resilience: Black women's experiences in prison

Angela Charles

- Remanding Women: Exploring the scope for using therapeutic jurisprudence as a framework in the bail and remand decision-making process

Lisa Mary Armstrong

- Being a girl: does it matter in the Belgian Youth Court?

Sofie De Bus

- Young Women in Norwegian Courts: A Study of Contemporary Control Strategies

Jane Dullum, Elisabeth Fransson and Sven-Erik Skotte

- Assessing the viability of problem-solving courts for criminalised women

Carly Lightowlers and Nicole Benefer

- The Gendered Harms of Criminalisation: Buying abortion pills on the internet in Northern Ireland

Goretti Horgan and Linda Moore

- The meaning of gender in sentencing domestic violence homicide cases in Poland

Anna Matczak and Emilia Rekosz-Cebula

- Being female sex offenders inside the criminal justice system: The Colombian case

Angie Borda-Montenegro

- Situating police legitimacy: The accounts of substance-using and sex-working women in Nigeria

Ediomo-Ubong E. Nelson and Aniekan S. Brown

- Out of sight, out of mind: The incarceration of cognitively disabled women in Australian prisons

Julie-Anne Toohey

- Incarcerated Women’s Experiences in Spain

Carmen Navarro, Anna Meléndez and Jenny Cubells

- Peer mentoring for women in prison: experiences of power, control and reliving past trauma

Melissa Henderson and Rosie Meek

- Carceral collectivism and incarcerated women’s experiences in Lithuania and Latvia

Ruta Vaiciuniene, Arta Jalili Idrissi and Arturas Tereškinas

- Maternal Imprisonment: The enduring impact of imprisonment on mothers and their children

Lucy Baldwin and Sophie Mitchell

- Imprisoned Women and Reproductive Health: A Site of Reproductive Rights Violation?

Emma Milne and Vicki Dabrowski

- Mother-infant separations in prison: Why does context matter?

Klare Martin and Claire Powell

- Mothering within a Prison Nursery – a review of the literature

Jacqui Johnson

- (Wo)men in the middle: the gendered role of supporting prisoners

Natalie Booth and Isla Masson with Ferzana Dakri

- A holistic approach to understanding and responding to the multiple and complex needs of women prison leavers in Wales: breaking the cycle of homelessness and reoffending

Caroline Gorden and Kelly Lockwood

- "It is nice to know that for once someone is not just saying that they’re backing your corner, they are actually fucking backing your corner": The significance of relational factors in women’s experiences of probation intervention

Natalie Rutter and Julie Eden-Barnard

- Women, the pains of imprisonment and public health interventions

Jennifer Ferguson and Maggie Leese

- A Darker Tale of Exceptionalism: How Punitive Drug Policies Impact Women’s Experiences of Desistance in Sweden

Robin Gålnander and Linnéa Österman

- Accounting for the gendered nature of ‘collateral consequences’ of a criminal record

Nicola A. Collett

- A New Emancipatory Script: gendered post-sentence discrimination and experiences of reintegration

Caroline Bald, Rachel Tynan and Olivia Dehnavi

- Experiencing the Juvenile Legal System as a Girl: Lessons from Gender-Responsive Approaches and Trauma-Informed Care

Nicole C McKenna, Valerie R Anderson, Eurielle Kiki, and Destinee L Starcher

- Imprisoned Women’s Experiences of Trust in Staff-Prisoner Relationships in an English Open Prison

Sarah Waite

- Supervising women in the community: A view from Catalonia

Cristina Vasilescu

- ‘I don’t know where to fit.how to fit back in.as a mum.as a person’: Exploring the implications for practitioners of women’s experiences of resettlement following short-term custody

Laura Haggar

- "She has nothing really when she goes out of prison": Community-based practitioners’ perceptions of young women’s pathways through the criminal justice system in Scotland

Annie Rose Crowley

Über Autor(innen)

Isla Masson is a Criminologist and Researcher at The Open University. Her research interests include women in the criminal justice system, motherhood, incarceration, remand, care leavers and restorative justice. Her book Incarcerating Motherhood (Routledge, 2019) was based on her doctoral research, which explored the longevity of short terms of incarceration on mothers. She is a trustee at The Boaz Project, which is a therapeutic work environment for adults with learning disabilities, and previously volunteered with the Independent Monitoring Board.

Natalie Booth is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Bath Spa University. Her doctorate explored ‘maternal imprisonment and family life’ resulting in a book revealing the previously untold experiences of those charged with the responsibility of looking after children of female prisoners ‘from the caregivers’ perspectives’ (2020). Her written work also contributes to our understanding about the maintenance of relationships and family contact during imprisonment, mothers and women in prison and developments in penal policy relating to women and families.