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The Incarceration of Women - Punishing Bodies, Breaking Spirits (Hardcover)
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The Incarceration of Women - Punishing Bodies, Breaking Spirits (Hardcover)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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This unique book adopts a rich theoretical, empirical and political
perspective to explore the gendered incarceration of women and
girls and the marginalization of their needs and rights within
predominantly male penal systems.Focusing on a decade's research
inside prisons in Northern Ireland, Moore and Scraton integrate
in-depth interviews, focus groups, regime observation and
documentary analysis to examine issues of equality, discipline,
mental health, self-harm, abuse and suicide. The independent,
primary research engages in controversies regarding the deaths of
women in custody, a hunger strike concerning the status of
politically-affiliated women prisoners, media revelations of sexual
exploitation of women prisoners by male prison guards, and the use
of punitive strip-searches and punishment cells for vulnerable
women.Telling the story of female incarceration through the voices
and experiences of women, this book provides a rare insight into
the destructive and debilitating impact of prison regimes,
advancing feminist analysis of women's incarceration and the
criminalization of women. Moore and Scraton's study raises
questions over the potential and limitations of gender specific
policies, the silencing of prisoners' voices and agency, the
significance of critical research in voicing prisoners' resistance
and the possibilities of decarceration through adopting an
abolitionist agenda.
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