The Routledge Handbook of Women's Experiences of Criminal Justice (Routledge International Handbooks)

"This Handbook brings together the voices of a range of contributors interested in the many varied experiences of women in criminal justice systems, and who are seeking to challenge the status quo. Although there is increasing literature and research on gender, and certain aspects of the criminal justice system (often Western focused), there is a significant gap in the form of a Handbook that brings together these important gendered conversations. This essential book explores research and theory on how women are perceived, handled, and experience criminal justice within and across different jurisdictions, with particular consideration of gendered and disparate treatment of women as law-breakers. There is also consideration of women's experiences through an intersectional lens, including race and class, as well as feminist scholarship and activism. The Handbook contains 47 unique chapters with nine overarching themes (Lessons from history and theory; Routes into the criminal justice system; Intersectionality; Sentencing and the courts and community punishments; Specific offences; Incarcerated women's experiences; Mothers and families; Rehabilitation and reintegration; Practitioner relationships), and each theme includes contributions from different countries as well as the experiences of contributors from different stages in their own journey. International and interdisciplinary in scope, this Handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of criminology, sociology, social policy, social work, and law. It will also be of interest to practitioners, such as social workers, probation officers, prison officers, and policy makers"-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of tables List of figures List of contributors 1 Introduction PART 1 Lessons from History and Theory 2 Womanhood as Weakness, or Why Witches Were Women 3 Infanticide Cases, Expert Evidence, and the Sympathetic Jury, in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century England 4 ‘Completely Innocent or Wholly Culpable’: Judicial Outcomes of Women Tried for Homicide in Pre-Modern England 5 Shifting Trends and Discourses in Women’s Imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand 6 Criminalised Women and the Risk Lens 7 Women’s Desistance: A Review of the Literature through a Gendered Lens PART 2 Routes into the Criminal Justice System 8 Perpetrators and Victims: Women, Double Deviance and the Criminal Justice System 9 “She Should Have Known”: Oversimplified Narratives of the Victim-Offender Cycle within Women Human Trafficking ‘Offenders’ 10 Care-Experienced Women in the Criminal Justice System 11 Family Violence, Homelessness and Criminalised Women: Accounting for Systemic Violence in the Australian Post-Release Milieu 12 Domestic Abuse as a Driver to Women’s Offending PART 3 Intersectional Narratives 13 Muslim Women Moving on from Crime 14 Making Visible the Invisibalised Voices of Criminalised Women in Australia 15 Women, Religion and Criminal Justice in Ireland 16 Women’s Experiences of Criminal Justice System in Pursuit of Inheritance: Voices from Pakistan 17 Lived Realities of Spouses of Incarcerated Husbands in India 18 Lesbian Experiences of the Criminal Justice System: A Practitioner Perspective 19 At the Intersection of Disadvantage, Disillusionment, and Resilience: Black Women’s Experiences in Prison PART 4 Sentencing and the Courts 20 Remanding Women: Exploring the Scope for Using Therapeutic Jurisprudence as a Framework in the Bail and Remand Decision- Making Process 21 Being a Girl: Does It Matter in the Belgian Youth Court? 22 Young Women in Norwegian Courts: A Study of Contemporary Control Strategies 23 Assessing the Viability of Problem-Solving Courts for Criminalised Women PART 5 Offence-Specific Experiences 24 The Gendered Harms of Criminalisation: Buying Abortion Pills on the Internet in Northern Ireland 25 The Meaning of Gender in Sentencing Domestic Violence Homicide Cases in Poland 26 Being Female Sex Offenders Inside the Criminal Justice System: The Colombian Case 27 Situating Police Legitimacy: The Accounts of Substance-Using and Sex-Working Women in Nigeria PART 6 Incarcerated Women’s Experiences 28 Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Incarceration of Cognitively Disabled Women in Australian Prisons 29 Incarcerated Women’s Experiences in Spain 30 Peer Mentoring for Women in Prison: Experiences of Power, Control and Reliving Past Trauma 31 Carceral Collectivism and Incarcerated Women’s Experiences in Lithuania and Latvia PART 7 Mothers and Families 32 Maternal Imprisonment: The Enduring Impact of Imprisonment on Mothers and their Children 33 Imprisoned Women and Reproductive Health: A Site of Reproductive Rights Violation? 34 Mother-Infant Separations in Prison: Why Does Context Matter? 35 Mothering Within a Prison Nursery – A Review of the Literature 36 (Wo)men in the Middle: The Gendered Role of Supporting Prisoners PART 8 Rehabilitation and Reintegration 37 A Holistic Approach to Understanding and Responding to the Multiple and Complex Needs of Women Prison Leavers in Wales: Breaking the Cycle of Homelessness and Reoffending 38 “It is nice to know that for once someone is not just saying that they’re backing your corner, they are actually fucking backing your corner”: The Significance of Relational Factors in Women’s Experiences of Probation Intervention 39 Women, the Pains of Imprisonment and Public Health Interventions 40 A Darker Tale of Exceptionalism: How Punitive Drug Policies Impact Women’s Experiences of Desistance in Sweden 41 Accounting for the Gendered Nature of ‘Collateral Consequences’ of a Criminal Record 42 A New Emancipatory Script: Gendered Post-Sentence Discrimination and Experiences of Reintegration 43 Experiencing the Juvenile Legal System as a Girl: Lessons from Gender-Responsive Approaches and Trauma-Informed Care PART 9 Practitioner Relationships 44 Imprisoned Women’s Experiences of Trust in Staff–Prisoner Relationships in an English Open Prison 45 Supervising Women in the Community: A View from Catalonia 46 “I don’t know where to fit...how to fit back in...as a mum...as a person”: Exploring the Implications for Practitioners of Women’s Experiences of Resettlement Following Short-Term Custody 47 “She has nothing really when she goes out of prison”: Community-Based Practitioners’ Perceptions of Young Women’s Pathways Through the Criminal Justice System in Scotland Index