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Women and Punishment (Hardcover)
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Women and Punishment (Hardcover)
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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 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. The major objective of this
book is to describe and analyse contemporary opportunities for, and
barriers to, both the reduction of female prison populations and
the reduction of the pain of those women who continue to be
imprisoned. It assesses the most important recent attempts to
reduce both women's imprisonment and the damage it does,
identifying and analyzing cross-jurisdiction and gender-specific
lessons to be learned, and the unexpected consequences of some of
the reform strategies. This book brings together leading scholars
and practitioners in the field, providing a critique of the reform
initiatives which have taken place, and a much-needed theorization
of cross-national policy in this area. It will be essential reading
for all with an interest in prisons and prison reform.
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