The Routledge Handbook of Women's Experiences of Criminal Justice

1. Introduction

Isla Masson and Natalie Booth

2. Womanhood as Weakness, or Why Witches Were Witches

Trace M Maddox

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

Rachel Dixon

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

Stephanie Brown

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

Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour and Kirsten Gibson

6. Criminalised Women and the Risk Lens

Hazel Kemshall

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

Madeline Pertrillo

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

Vicky Seaman and Orla Lynch

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

Alexandra L. A. Baxter

10. Care-Experienced Women in the Criminal Justice System

Claire Fitzpatrick, Jo Staines and Katie Hunter

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

Rebecca Bunn and Elisa Buggy

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

Jo Roberts

13. Muslim Women Moving on from Crime

Sofia Buncy, Alexandria Bradley and Sarah Goodwin

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

Debbie Kilroy and Tabitha Lean

15. Women, Religion and Criminal Justice in Ireland

Lynsey Black

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

Iram Rubab

17. Lived Realities of Spouses of Incarcerated Husbands in India

Rashmi Choudhury

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

Kath Wilson

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

Angela Charles

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

Lisa Mary Armstrong

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

Sofie De Bus

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

Jane Dullum, Elisabeth Fransson and Sven-Erik Skotte

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

Carly Lightowlers and Nicole Benefer

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

Goretti Horgan and Linda Moore

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

Anna Matczak and Emilia Rekosz-Cebula

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

Angie Borda-Montenegro

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

Ediomo-Ubong E. Nelson and Aniekan S. Brown

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

Julie-Anne Toohey

29. Incarcerated Women’s Experiences in Spain

Carmen Navarro, Anna Meléndez and Jenny Cubells

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

Melissa Henderson and Rosie Meek

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

Rūta Vaičiūnienė, Arta Jalili Idrissi and Artūras Tereškinas

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

Lucy Baldwin and Sophie Mitchell

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

Emma Milne and Vicki Dabrowski

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

Klare Martin and Claire Powell

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

Jacqui Johnson

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

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

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

Natalie Rutter and Julie Eden-Barnard

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

Jennifer Ferguson and Maggie Leese

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

Robin Gålnander and Linnéa Österman

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

Nicola A. Collett

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

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

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

Sarah Waite

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

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

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.