1st Edition
Women, Punishment and Social Justice Human Rights and Penal Practices
Part 1. Introduction 1. Women, Punishment and Social Justice, Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor 2. Ethicality, Legitimacy, Law and Locality: Making the Case for Change, Loraine Gelsthorpe Part 2. The Penal Context 3. Women's imprisonment in Northern Ireland: Social exclusion, punishment and breaches of rights, Linda Moore and Ann Jemphrey 4. Deaths of Women in Prison: the Human Rights Issues Arising, Deborah Coles 5. Researching the mental health needs of women in prison: Problems and pitfalls, Alice Mills, Kathleen Kendall Judith Lathlean and Julie Steel 6. Older female prisoners in the UK and US: Finding justice in the criminal justice system 7. A healing place? Okimaw Ochi and a Canadian approach to Aboriginal women, Azrini Wahidin and Ron Aday 8. Human rights in an institutional setting, Alison Hosie Part 3. Community Sanctions, Human Rights and Social Justice 9. Prisons, gender responsive strategies and community sanctions: The expansion of punishment in the United States, Jodie Lawston 10. Justice and community for women in transition in Victoria, Australia, Rosemary Sheehan 11. Hostels and community justice for women: The 'semi-penal' paradox, Alana Barton and Vickie Cooper 12. The 218 experience, Mary Beglan 13. An Offending Strategy: The State’s Response to Women within the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland, Una Convery 14. Tracking the invisible: Young Gitana women and punishment in Andalusia, Rosario Pozo Gordaliza Part 4. Concluding Thoughts 15. Women, punishment and social justice: Why should you care?, Kim Pate 16. Concluding reflections, Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor.
Biography
Margaret Malloch is Senior Research Fellow in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) at the University of Stirling.
Gill McIvor is Professor of Criminology and co-director of SCCJR at the University of Stirling. She recently co-edited Working with Women Offenders in the Community (2011) and What Works with Women Offenders (2007) (with Rosemary Sheehan and Chris Trotter), also available from Routledge.
'Drawing on international knowledge and expertise, the contributors to this book challenge the effiacy of gender-responsive interventions by examining issues affecting women in the criminal justice system such as mental health, age, and ethnicity. Crucially, the book engages with the paradox of implementing rights within a largely punishment-orientated system designed to meet the needs of the male offending population. Women, Punishment and Social Justice will be of interest to those undertaking undergraduate and post-graduate courses that examine punishment, gender and justice, and which lend themselves to an international/comparative aspect.' - Bev Orton, University of Hull
