Womanhood as Weakness, or Why Witches Were Women / 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 Emma 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 Petrillo -- 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 Melendez 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 / Ruta Vaiciuniene and Arturas Tereskinas -- 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 Galnander and Linnea Osterman -- 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 Rose 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 where she goes out of prison": Community-Based Practitioners' Perceptions of Young Women's Pathways Through the Criminal Justice System in Scotland / Annie Rose Crowley
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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