Women's imprisonment and the case for abolition : critical reflections on Corston ten years on / edited by Linda Moore, Phil Scraton and Azrini Wahidin.
2018
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Title
Women's imprisonment and the case for abolition : critical reflections on Corston ten years on / edited by Linda Moore, Phil Scraton and Azrini Wahidin.
Imprint
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Description
1 online resource (viii, 214 pages)
Formatted Contents Note
chapter Introduction / Linda Moore
chapter 1 The post-Corston women's penal 'crisis' in England and Wales: Exploring the failure of reform / Linda Moore
chapter 2 After Corston: Community, change, and challenges / Loraine Gelsthorpe
chapter 3 From 'troubled' women to failing institutions: The necessary narrative shift for the decarceration of women post-Corston / Becky Clarke
chapter 4 The imprisonment of women in Scotland: Restructure, reform or abolish? / Margaret Malloch
chapter 5 Post-Corston reflections on remanded women's experiences in Northern Ireland / Gillian McNaull
chapter 6 Corston principles in Canada: Creating the carceral Other and moving beyond women in prison / Vicki Chartrand
chapter 7 In pursuit of fundamental change within the Australian penal landscape: Taking inspiration from the Corston Report / Julie Stubbs
chapter 8 'Ukhohliwe': A South African perspective on the Corston Report
chapter 9 Beyond Corston: The politics of decarceration and abolition in a punitive climate / Phil Scraton.
chapter 1 The post-Corston women's penal 'crisis' in England and Wales: Exploring the failure of reform / Linda Moore
chapter 2 After Corston: Community, change, and challenges / Loraine Gelsthorpe
chapter 3 From 'troubled' women to failing institutions: The necessary narrative shift for the decarceration of women post-Corston / Becky Clarke
chapter 4 The imprisonment of women in Scotland: Restructure, reform or abolish? / Margaret Malloch
chapter 5 Post-Corston reflections on remanded women's experiences in Northern Ireland / Gillian McNaull
chapter 6 Corston principles in Canada: Creating the carceral Other and moving beyond women in prison / Vicki Chartrand
chapter 7 In pursuit of fundamental change within the Australian penal landscape: Taking inspiration from the Corston Report / Julie Stubbs
chapter 8 'Ukhohliwe': A South African perspective on the Corston Report
chapter 9 Beyond Corston: The politics of decarceration and abolition in a punitive climate / Phil Scraton.
Summary
"In 2007, the Corston Report recommended a far-reaching, radical 'women-centred' approach to women's imprisonment in England and Wales. It suggested a 'fundamental re-thinking' about how services to support women in conflict with the law are delivered in custody and in the community, recommending the development and implementation of a decarceration strategy. This argued for appropriate treatment programmes in the community, reserving prison for only those women who commit serious and violent offences. Ten years on, what progress has been made? What is the relationship between Corston's vision and a more radical abolitionist agenda? Drawing on a range of international scholarship, this book contributes to the critical discourse on the penal system, human rights, and social injustice and revealing the consequences of imprisonment on the lives of women and their families. A decade on from its publication, it critically reviews the Corston Report, revealing the slow progress in meeting the reforms it proposed. Identifying the significant barriers to change, it questions the failure to reverse the unrelenting growth of the women's prison population or to transform state responses to women's offending. Reflecting the global expansion of women's imprisonment, particularly marked in advanced democratic societies, the chapters include comparative contributions from jurisdictions where Corston's recommendations have relevance. It concludes with a critical appraisal of reformism and the case for penal abolition.Essential for applied and theory courses on prisons, punishment, and penology; social justice and the criminology of human rights; and gender and crime, and feminist criminology."--Provided by publisher.
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Taylor & Francis Online
Language
English
ISBN
9781315204819 (e-book : PDF)
9781351792134 (e-book: Mobi)
9781138700253 (hardback)
9781138700260 (paperback)
9781351792134 (e-book: Mobi)
9781138700253 (hardback)
9781138700260 (paperback)
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