Women and Punishment

ISBN-13: 9781903240588 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 280 str.

Alyson Brown; Pat Carlen

Opis

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 countries to fashion and co-ordinate gender-specific policies towards female offenders which aim both to slow down the rate of their offending and/or imprisonment, and also to engender flexible programmes which will reduce the time spent in custody and/or away from their young children.

Spis treści

Foreword by Lord Ramsbotham  Introduction  Part 1: Context  1. Women's imprisonment: penal, social or political crisis?  2. Women's imprisonment: the making of a penal crisis  3. Gender issues? Women's imprisonment: gender issues in penal theory and jurisprudence  Part 2: Practice  4. A caring prison: opportunities for and limits to reform  5. A gender-wise prison? Opportunities for and limits to reform  6. A gender-sensitive programme for women offenders  7. The Women at Risk programme  8. Women's imprisonment: cross-national lessons  Part 3: Critique  9. Young women and prostitution policy: new discourses, same old story  10. Time to think again about cognitive-behavioural programmes  11. Creating choices? Reflecting on the choices  12. Women's imprisonment: barriers to reform  13. Penal politics and the new vocabularies of expert and common-sense knowledge

O autorze

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.