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Women, Punishment and Social Justice - Human Rights and Penal Practices (Hardcover, New)
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Women, Punishment and Social Justice - Human Rights and Penal Practices (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
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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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