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The Routledge Handbook of Women's Experiences of Criminal Justice

Edited By Isla Masson, Natalie Booth Copyright 2023
    592 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    592 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    592 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    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.

     

    1. Introduction

      2. Isla Masson and Natalie Booth

    2. Womanhood as Weakness, or Why Witches Were Witches

      3. Trace M Maddox

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

      4. Rachel Dixon

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

      5. Stephanie Brown

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

      6. Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour and Kirsten Gibson

    6. Criminalised Women and the Risk Lens

      7. Hazel Kemshall

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

      8. Madeline Pertrillo

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

      9. Vicky Seaman and Orla Lynch

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

      10. Alexandra L. A. Baxter

    10. Care-Experienced Women in the Criminal Justice System

      11. Claire Fitzpatrick, Jo Staines and Katie Hunter

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

      12. Rebecca Bunn and Elisa Buggy

    12. Domestic abuse as a driver to women’s offending

      13. Jo Roberts

    13. Muslim Women Moving on from Crime

      14. Sofia Buncy, Alexandria Bradley and Sarah Goodwin

    14. Making visible the invisibalised voices of criminalised women in Australia

      15. Debbie Kilroy and Tabitha Lean

    15. Women, Religion and Criminal Justice in Ireland

      16. Lynsey Black

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

      17. Iram Rubab

    17. Lived Realities of Spouses of Incarcerated Husbands in India

      18. Rashmi Choudhury

    18. Lesbian Experiences of the Criminal Justice System: A Practitioner Perspective

      19. Kath Wilson

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

      20. Angela Charles

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

      21. Lisa Mary Armstrong

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

      22. Sofie De Bus

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

      23. Jane Dullum, Elisabeth Fransson and Sven-Erik Skotte

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

      24. Carly Lightowlers and Nicole Benefer

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

      25. Goretti Horgan and Linda Moore

    25. The meaning of gender in sentencing domestic violence homicide cases in Poland

      26. Anna Matczak and Emilia Rekosz-Cebula

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

      27. Angie Borda-Montenegro

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

      28. Ediomo-Ubong E. Nelson and Aniekan S. Brown

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

      29. Julie-Anne Toohey

    29. Incarcerated Women’s Experiences in Spain

      30. Carmen Navarro, Anna Meléndez and Jenny Cubells

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

      31. Melissa Henderson and Rosie Meek

    31. Carceral collectivism and incarcerated women’s experiences in Lithuania and Latvia

      32. Rūta Vaičiūnienė, Arta Jalili Idrissi and Artūras Tereškinas

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

      33. Lucy Baldwin and Sophie Mitchell

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

      34. Emma Milne and Vicki Dabrowski

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

      35. Klare Martin and Claire Powell

    35. Mothering within a Prison Nursery – a review of the literature

      36. Jacqui Johnson

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

      37. Natalie Booth and Isla Masson with Ferzana Dakri

    37. 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

      38. Caroline Gorden and Kelly Lockwood

    38. "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

      39. Natalie Rutter and Julie Eden-Barnard

    39. Women, the pains of imprisonment and public health interventions

      40. Jennifer Ferguson and Maggie Leese

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

      41. Robin Gålnander and Linnéa Österman

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

      42. Nicola A. Collett

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

      43. Caroline Bald, Rachel Tynan and Olivia Dehnavi

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

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

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

      45. Sarah Waite

    45. Supervising women in the community: A view from Catalonia

      46. Cristina Vasilescu

    46. ‘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

      47. Laura Haggar

    47. "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

     

    Biography

    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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