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Gender Responsive Justice - A Critical Appraisal (Hardcover)
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Gender Responsive Justice - A Critical Appraisal (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Crime, Diversity and Criminal Justice
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At the end of the twentieth century a step-change in thinking about
the offending behaviour of women began to impact on policy-makers
concerned with the treatment of female offenders. A growing number
of nations, states and organisations both national and
supra-national in nature began to acknowledge that existing
criminal justice and especially penal practices had not been
sufficiently attentive to women's needs and had discriminated
against women as a result. The concept of 'gender-responsive
justice' - an orientation to working with women and girls based
around a consideration of the special needs of women as prisoners
and their particular pathways to offending - has been developed as
a result. This book explores the development of this concept, the
theories which have informed it, policy arenas in which
gender-responsive justice has been attempted and the practices of
gender-responsive justice which have subsequently emerged. This
book takes a global perspective as it outlines the different
international and national arenas within which gender-responsive
justice gained favour and considers what has been learned from this
novel and feminist-inspired approach. Gender-responsive justice has
not been without its critics, however, and this book also examines
the different arguments which have been used to attack or critique
the concept from varied perspectives. This book lays down a clear
theoretical framework for understanding gender-responsive justice
and will be useful in assessing current and future policy-making in
this area.
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