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Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited
collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy
and practice related specifically to women to answer the important
question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system? In
a landscape where women's involvement in the criminal justice
system still tends to be ignored or lost in discussions about men,
contributors place special emphasis on women as both victims and
offenders. The chapters cover a wide range of topics relating to
women and crime, including: violent and sexual victimisation,
violent offending, sentencing and punishment, and rape myths. Since
the peak of feminist criminal justice scholarship in the 1990s, the
place of women in the criminal justice system has arguably slipped
down the agenda and the authors of this collection draw on original
research to make the compelling case for a swift remedy to this.
Drawing on recent academic studies and professional experience to
set an agenda for future research - as well as legal and policy
reform - this book injects new life into the dialogue surrounding
women and the criminal justice system. Innovative and timely, this
collection of essays holds broad appeal to academics and
practitioners, as well as students of criminology, criminal justice
and law, and all those with an interest in feminism, justice, and
inequality.
The Real Enough World speculates about the invention of self and
world in the act of writing poems. Like orchestral movements, the
poems vary in tonal qualities and speed, moving from
sensibility-driven, antic poems through a deeply personal series of
narratives to poems of philosophical reflection where landscape and
love operate as tropes for each other. Underlying the whole is the
poet's sense that the material of life, as well as language, is
insoluble and impermanent--humorous, tragic, absurd, joyous. Even
when the mood of the book is most surreal, it is grounded in its
accounts of the real enough.
This book provides the first comprehensive and detailed analysis of
the Infanticide Act and its impact in England and Wales and around
the world. It is 100 years since an Infanticide Act was first
passed in England and Wales. The statute, re-enacted in 1938,
allows for leniency to be given to women who kill their infants
within the first year of life. This legislation is unique and
controversial: it creates a specific offence and defence that is
available only to women who kill their biological infants. Men and
other carers are not able to avail of the special mitigation
provided by the Act, nor are women who kill older children. The
collection brings together leading experts in the field to offer
important insights into the history of the law, how it works today,
the impact and legacy of the statute and potential futures of
infanticide laws around the world. Contributors consider the Act in
practice in England and Wales, the ways it has been portrayed in
the British media and justifications for and criticisms of the
provision of special treatment for women who kill their infants
within a year of birth. It also looks at the criminal justice
responses to infanticide in other jurisdictions, such as Australia,
Ireland, Sweden and the United States of America.
The call came at 6 A.M. Karen Brennan's twenty-five-year-old
daughter, Rachel, had been in a motorcycle accident. She was in a
coma. Her CAT scan, the neurosurgeon said, was very, very ugly.
Instantly, Karen Brennan's life of comfortable dailiness becomes
"passionate necessary-ness." Cautioned that her daughter will not
be the "same person," Brennan waits and hopes through weeks of
intensive care, months of coma, and Rachel's determined efforts to
walk again. The joy of Rachel's first words is followed by the
discovery that she has a severe short-term memory deficit. Rachel
cannot remember or fashion a simple narrative. A professor with a
special interest in memory, Brennan takes up the challenge of
helping Rachel rebuild herself. Jump-starting her daughter's memory
by constantly retelling Rachel's own story, Brennan also fosters
the creativity and humor that have always characterized her
daughter. Their collaborative effort, bound by love, is a dynamic
memoir of recovery and reinvention. Brennan says, "Why am I writing
this story? I ask myself. I am writing to discover the situation in
which my daughter and I find ourselves. I am writing as a way of
grieving, because writing is the only way I know how to work out my
loss. And I think if I can construct the story of Rachel's
recovery, it might deliver me once and for all to hopefulness."
"Being with Rachel is for readers who want to be reminded of why
books matter. Karen Brennan's memoir advocates, illustrates,
demonstrates the superhuman power of family, its ability to triumph
in the face of worst-case scenarios, institutional aloofness, bad
luck, and the evil influence of conventional wisdom. The family
that emerges here is one built on a great deal of passionate,
difficult love. This is a tough and inspiring and heartbreaking
book."--Antonya Nelson "Spare, understated, emotionally honest and
yet unsentimental, this beautifully crafted memoir succeeds on two
levels: both as an extraordinarily moving personal document and as
a vital investigation into the nature of memory and
narrative."--Andrea Barrett
A collection of poetry from an award-winning poet, playwright and
novelist.
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