The Routledge Handbook of Women's Experiences of Criminal Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19936801 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isla Masson (0000-0001-7203-6748), Natalie Booth (0000-0002-2249-9004) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Routledge Handbook of Women's Experiences of Criminal Justice (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003202295 |
| OpenAlex | W4298147120 |
| ISBN | 9781003202295 |
| Open Library | OL36759681M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
Desistance theories consider how the social positionality of an individual and the opportunities to which they are exposed interact with agentic factors to bring about termination of offending and related behaviours. It has been argued that they fail to avoid the androcentricity to which most criminological theories are prone, in that they ignore structural contexts such as gender, class, and race. Research into women with convictions highlights several gendered ‘pains’ which can adversely impact their experiences of criminal justice, including trauma, childhood abuse, intimate partner abuse, relational stress, intersectional discrimination, and socio-economic disadvantage. However, by absorbing women’s experiences into the white male majority, the scholarship on desistance subjugates the specificities of women’s experiences. This chapter will provide a critical review of the key theoretical perspectives of desistance through a gendered lens, exploring how themes of relationships, identity transformation, and agency have been theorised to support desistance generally. It then interrogates these ideas from a feminist perspective using women’s desistance research; advocating that to meaningfully support women in leaving crime behind, the intersectional divergences in their desistance pathways must be understood and accounted for
Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Administration of Criminal justice · Discrimination in criminal justice administration · Female offenders · Social Science · Women prisoners · Women's Studies
Inequality, cumulative disadvantage and youth justice
Reflecting on flexibility in the probation system
Care or control? expanding the scope for understanding peer mentoring and implications for women's prisons
Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety
The Impact of Male Violence on Female Delinquency
Envisioning sustainable rural development
Expanding the Lens
Evading Law Enforcement in the Americas
Incorporating lived experience into social work practice
Prison education in the resocialization of incarcerated individuals
Knitting Identity, Weaving Hope
| Citations per year | 5.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |