280 Pages
by
Willan
280 Pages
by
Willan
280 Pages
by
Willan
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In the last decade there has been growing international concern about the increasing numbers of women in prison, the effects that imprisonment has on their children, the realisation that gaoled women have different criminal profiles and rehabilitative needs to male prisoners, and the seeming intractability of the associated problems. In response there has been an overarching policy concern in many... Read more
Foreword by Lord Ramsbotham Introduction Part 1: Context 1. Women's imprisonment: penal, social or political crisis? Pat Carlen 2. Women's imprisonment: the making of a penal crisis, Anne Worrall 3. Gender issues? Women's imprisonment: gender issues in penal theory and jurisprudence, Barbara Hudson Part 2: Practice 4. A caring prison: opportunities for and limits to reform, Kate Donnegan 5. A gender-wise prison? Opportunities for and limits to reform, Kate De Cou 6. A gender-sensitive programme for women offenders, Jenny Roberts 7. The Women at Risk programme 8. Women's imprisonment: cross-national lessons, Pat Carlen Part 3: Critique 9. Young women and prostitution policy: new discourses, same old story, Jo Phoenix 10. Time to think again about cognitive-behavioural programmes, Kathleen Kendall 11. Creating choices? Reflecting on the choices, Kelly Hannah-Moffat 12. Women's imprisonment: barriers to reform, Jackie Lowthian 13. Penal politics and the new vocabularies of expert and common-sense knowledge, Pat Carlen
Biography
Pat Carlen is Visiting Professor at the Universities of Kent and Westminster, Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology, founder of the Keele Criminology Department, co-founder of the campaigning group Women in Prison and has published 17 books and many articles on criminal and social justice.
