Women exiting prison [electronic resource] : critical essays on gender, post-release support and survival / Edited by Bree Carlton and Marie Segrave.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Carlton, Bree (Editor)
Segrave, Marie, 1979- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
Series:Routledge studies in crime and society ; 5
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Variant Title:
Women Exiting Prison: Critical Essays on Gender, Post-release Support and Survival
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Preface / by Pat Carlen
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: gendered transcarceral realities / by Marie Segrave and Bree Carlton
  • Incarceration, welfare state, and labor market nexus : the increasing significance of gender in the prison system / by Kristin Bumiller
  • Post-release support for women in England and Wales : the big picture / by Kathleen Kendall
  • Therapeutic correctional spaces, transcarceral interventions : post-release support structures and realities experienced by women in Victoria, Australia / by Bree Carlton and Eileen Baldry
  • To thrive or simply survive : parole and the post-release needs of Canadian women exiting prison / by Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Nathan Innocente
  • Continuing systemic discrimination : indigenous Australian women exiting prison / by Eileen Baldry
  • Post-release reality for women prisoners in Northern Ireland : the challenges of "resettlement" in a society emerging from conflict / by Jacqueline Kerr and Linda Moore1
  • A bit neo-liberal, a bit Fabian : interventionist narratives in a diversionary programme for women / by Mary Corcoran and Claire Fox
  • Decentring the prison : abolitionist approaches to working with criminalized women / by Debbie Kilroy, Phoebe Barton, Suzi Quixley, Amanda George and Emma Russell
  • Resisting gendered carceral landscapes / by Cassandra Shaylor and Erica R. Meiners
  • Postscript: a radical vision for system and social change / by Bree Carlton and Marie Segrave.