Working Through Desistance

Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8401043
AutoresGrace Low (0009-0009-4418-6357, University of Auckland, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume64
Fascículo4
Páginas846-862
Data de publicação2024-07-13
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azad064
OpenAlexW4388554472
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas36

Desistance and re-entry literature has traditionally explored particular types of women’s relationships and social roles (such as maternal identities and familial relationships), while neglecting the potential for employment and work-related roles to support change. Through interviews with 15 (predominantly Indigenous) women with histories of imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand, this article contributes to feminist literature on women’s desistance by exploring the role of employment in their change. The article explores how women (particularly Indigenous women) face significant barriers to employment, based on multiple sites of inequality. It also explores how employment (and employers) can support women’s identity and relational desistance. It is argued that policy and practice should recognize and attempt to leverage the beneficial effects of employment on women’s desistance

Aotearoa · Criminology · Identity (music) · Imprisonment · Indigenous · Sociology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues