The prison has often been the focus for concerns about human
rights violations, and campaigns aimed at achieving social justice,
for those with an interest in the criminalisation of women. To
reduce the number of women imprisoned, a range of policy
initiatives have been developed to increase the use of
community-based responses to women in conflict with the law. These
initiatives have tended to operate alongside reforms to the prison
estate and are often defined as community punishment, community
sanctions and alternatives to imprisonment . This book challenges
the contention that improved regimes and provisions within the
criminal justice system are capable of addressing human rights
concerns and the needs of the criminalised woman.
This book aims to provide a critical analysis of approaches and
experiences of penal sanctions, human rights and social justice as
enacted in different jurisdictions within and beyond the UK.
Drawing on international knowledge and expertise, the contributors
to this book challenge the efficacy of gender-responsive
interventions by examining issues affecting women in the criminal
justice system such as mental health, age, and ethnicity.
Crucially, the book will engage with the paradox of implementing
rights within a largely punishment-orientated system.
This book will be of interest to those taking undergraduate and
post-graduate courses that examine punishment, gender and justice,
and which lend themselves to an international / comparative aspect
such as criminal justice/criminology, (international) criminal
justice courses; sociology as well as professional training for
practitioners (criminal justice, social work, health) who work with
women in the criminal justice system.
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