Women and punishment : the struggle for justice /

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Imprint:	Cullompton, Devon, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan Pub., 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Women prisoners. Female offenders -- Effect of imprisonment on. Female offenders -- Rehabilitation. Female offenders -- Rehabilitation. Women prisoners. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11302342

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Other authors / contributors:	Carlen, Pat.
ISBN:	9781134000913 113400091X 9781843924951 1843924951 9781134001057 1134001053 9781134000982 1134000987 1281332038 9781281332035 9786611332037 6611332030 1903240581 9781903240588 1903240573 9781903240571
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Several of the papers included were presented at a conference entitled, Women's Imprisonment: Models of Change and Cross-National Lessons. Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	The major objective of this book is to describe and analyse contemporary opportunities for, and barriers to, both the reduction of female prison populations and the reduction of the pain of those women who continue to be imprisoned.
Other form:	Print version: Women and punishment. Cullompton, Devon, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan Pub., 2002 1903240581

Table of Contents:

Introduction: women and punishment / Pat Carlen
Gender issues in penal policy and penal theory / Barbara Hudson
Rendering women punishable: the making of a penal crisis / Anne Worrall
Youth prostitution policy reform: new discourse, same old story / Joanna Phoenix
A gender-wise prison: opportunities for, and limits to, reform / Kate De Cou
Women-centred: the West Mercia community-based programme for women offenders / Jenny Roberts
The women at risk programme / Sally Poteat
Women's imprisonment: cross-national lessons / Pat Carlen.
Women's prisons in England: barriers to reform / Jackie Lowthian
Time to think again about cognitive behavioural programmes / Kathleen Kendall
Creating choices: reflecting on choices / Kelly Hannah-Moffat
New discourses of justification and reform for women's imprisonment in England / Pat Carlen.

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