Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
While the number of incarcerated women is dramatically escalating, women prisoners throughout the world are largely an invisible and neglected population. These comparative essays examine thoroughly the unique problems, challenges, and issues facing women inmates in the United States, Canada, England, New Zealand, Poland, and Thailand.
The insightful volume fills a major gap in criminal justice literature, and it provides a solid basis for further discussion of the too-long ignored subject of women's imprisonment.
Table of Contents
Will anyone ever listen? : an introductory note / Sandy Cook and Susanne Davies -- Speaking out : personal accounts of women's imprisonment. No winners here / Lauren Shanahan. One life in prison : perception, reflection, and empowerment / Marcia Bunney. The violence of women's imprisonment : a view from the inside / Elizabeth Morgan. Ali's visit / Helen Barnacle -- Understanding the criminalization and imprisonment of women. The sex of crime and punishment / Susanne Davies and Sandy Cook -- Current trends in women's imprisonment. Women and imprisonment in the United States : the gendered consequences of the U.S. imprisonment binge / Barbara Owen. Transformative justice versus re-entrenched correctionalism : the Canadian experience / Karlene Faith. Women's imprisonment in England : current issues / Pat Carlen. Addressing women's needs or empty rhetoric? : an examination of New Zealand's policy for women in prison / Allison Morris and Venezia Kingi. On the margin of life : women's imprisonment in Poland / Monika Platek. Unheard voices : Burmese women in immigration detention in Thailand / Carol Ransley -- Current Issues in women's imprisonment. The new prison culture : making millions from misery / Amanda George. The "war on drugs": a war against women? / Stephanie R. Bush-Baskette. Crime, sex and justice : African American women in U.S. prisons / Evelyn Gilbert. A video camera can change your life / Margaret Shaw. Neglect or punishment? : failing to meet the needs of women post-release / Susanne Davies and Sandy Cook. Diminishing opportunities : researching women's imprisonment / Cherry Grimwade.