Transforming Choices
The Marginalization of Gender-Specific Policy Making in Canadian Approaches to Women's Federal Imprisonment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12122604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kelly Struthers Montford (0000-0002-1607-2178, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 284-310 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/Revue Femmes et Droit (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0832-8781 • E-ISSN: 1911-0235 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cjwl.27.2.284 |
| OpenAlex | W2269571185 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
In 2008, the Correctional Service of Canada accepted the 2007 report of Correctional Service of Canada Review Panel, A Roadmap to Strengthening Public Safety. This document provides the basis for the “transformation agenda” that now guides the administration of imprisonment for all populations. For federally sentenced women, this approach coexists with the recommendations made by the Task Force for Federally Sentenced Women in their 1990 report, Creating Choices. This analysis compares the composition of the committees responsible for these documents, their mandates, their consultation processes, and how these factors shaped their respective conclusions and recommendations. While Creating Choices can be understood as a feminist policy document, Roadmap employs a gender-neutral law-and-order discourse—its authors assume that the recommendations they make for male prisoners can be applied to women and minority groups. Shifting discourses about women, gender equality, and imprisonment are evident and are consistent with Laureen Snider's argument that the dominant conceptualization of imprisoned women has changed from that of the “woman in trouble” to that of the “atavistic woman.” Its implementation marks a shift in the trajectory of women's imprisonment and is a material example of the marginalization of gender considerations in public policy
Argument (complex analysis · Business · Conceptualization · Imprisonment · Political science · Service (business · Sociology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Medicine · Social Work Education and Practice
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |