Indigenous Carceral Motherhood

An Examination of Colonial, Patriarchal, and Neoliberal Control

Bibliographic Data

ID19541978
AuthorsIsabel Scheuneman Scott (University of Alberta, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume8
Issue1
Publication date2019-10-07
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
Venueaboriginal policy studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1923-3299 • E-ISSN: 1923-3299
PublisherAboriginal Policy Studies (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5663/aps.v8i1.29333
OpenAlexW2982290590
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited12

Despite Canada’s international reputation as a world leader in women’s rights, its own policies and practices continue to target and discriminate against Indigenous women, particularly those who are entangled within the criminal (in)justice and child welfare systems (Monchalin 2016). This article synthesizes international research, with a primary focus on Canada, in order to theorize issues surrounding Indigenous women’s experiences of carceral motherhood. By drawing on critical feminist criminological and Indigenous feminist perspectives, I examine issues related to caretaking and incarceration, mothering from prison (visitations), mothering in prison (mother-child programs), and mothering after prison (parole). Despite rejecting the prison as a solution to “the crime problem,” I conclude by offering tentative recommendations on how to ameliorate Indigenous women’s experiences of carceral motherhood

Colonialism · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Indigenous · Political science · Prison · Sociology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law

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