Overview

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.

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Author:   Isla Masson (Arden University, UK) ,  Natalie Booth
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032064307

ISBN 10:   1032064307
Pages:   570
Publication Date:   25 October 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"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 Rūta Vaičiūnienė, Arta Jalili Idrissi and Artūras 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"

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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.

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