Full Description
Accounts of female offenders' journeys into the criminal justice system are often silenced or marginalized.
Featuring a Foreword from Pat Carlen and inspired by her seminal book 'Criminal Women', this collection uses participatory, inclusive and narrative methodologies to highlight the lived experiences of women involved with the criminal justice system. It presents studies focused on drug use and supply, sex work, sexual exploitation and experiences of imprisonment.
Bringing together cutting-edge feminist research, this book exposes the intersecting oppressions and social control often central to women's experiences of the justice system and offers invaluable insights for developing penal policies that account for the needs of women.
Contents
Foreword - Pat Carlen
Introduction - Sharon Grace, Maggie O'Neill, Tammi Walker, Hannah King, Lucy Baldwin, Alison Jobe, Orla Lynch, Fiona Measham, Kate O'Brien and Vicky Seaman
1. Hearing the Voices of Women Involved in Drugs and Crime - Sharon Grace
2. Knifing Off? The Inadequacies of Desistance Frameworks for Women in the Criminal Justice System in Ireland - Vicky Seaman and Orla Lynch
3. Sex Work, Criminalisation and Stigma: Towards a Feminist Criminological Imagination - Maggie O'Neill and Alison Jobe
4. Criminal Women in Prison Who Self-harm: What Can We Learn from Their Experiences? - Tammi Walker
5. Criminal Mothers: The Persisting Pains of Maternal Imprisonment - Lucy Baldwin, with Mary Elwood and Cassie Brown
6. 'The World Split Open': Writing, Teaching and Learning with Women in Prison - Hannah King, Kate O'Brien and Fiona Measham, with Verity-Fee, Phoenix, Iris and Angel
7. Women's Biographies through Prison - Verity-Fee, Phoenix, Iris and Angel, with Hannah King, Kate O'Brien and Fiona Measham
Afterword - Loraine Gelsthorpe
