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Gender responsive justice : a critical appraisal / Karen Evans.
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Evans, Karen, 1961-
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Description
145 pages ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HV6046 .E93 2018
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Female offenders
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Criminal justice, Administration of.
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Feminist criminology
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Series
Routledge critical studies in crime, diversity and criminal justice
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At the end of the twentieth century a step-change in thinking about the offending behaviour of women began to impact on policy-makers concerned with the treatment of female offenders. A growing number of nations, states and organisations both national and supra-national in nature began to acknowledge that existing criminal justice and especially penal practices had not been sufficiently attentive to women's needs and had discriminated against women as a result. The concept of 'gender-responsive justice' - an orientation to working with women and girls based around a consideration of the special needs of women as prisoners and their particular pathways to offending - has been developed as a result. This book explores the development of this concept, the theories which have informed it, policy arenas in which gender-responsive justice has been attempted and the practices of gender-responsive justice which have subsequently emerged. This book takes a global perspective as it outlines the different international and national arenas within which gender-responsive justice gained favour and considers what has been learned from this novel and feminist-inspired approach. Gender-responsive justice has not been without its critics, however, and this book also examines the different arguments which have been used to attack or critique the concept from varied perspectives. This book lays down a clear theoretical framework for understanding gender-responsive justice and will be useful in assessing current and future policy-making in this area. --Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
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1. Man made punishment
The privatisation of punishment for women and girls
The silencing of women
Retributive principles and the undervaluing of the female sex
The masculinism of modern punishment
Realist approaches to women's punishment
The rehabilitative turn
Radical reactions
Feminist incursions into criminology
The resurgence of discipline
Notes
2. From sex-specific to gender-responsive justice: opening up punishment to a feminist lens
Saints and sinners: the stereotyping of women in the criminal justice system
Disciplinary regimes inside the carceral net: by women, for women
Women's experiences and the pains of imprisonment
Pathways to crime: a gendered analysis of women's law-breaking
Inserting the concept of gender-specific treatment into the justice system
Theorising punishment for women: a 'women-wise penology'
Reformist or radical change?
3. Gender-responsive justice in action
The rise of gender-specific justice
The global reach of gender-specific justice
Gender-specific programming in criminal justice
Gender-specific programming in practice
Barriers to the implementation of gender-specific services
Does What Works? work for women?
Gender-responsive programming: the incorporation of gender into the mainstream?
A lost age of innocence?
4. Gender responsivity and the male gaze
Feminism and the problem of men
The study of men and masculinities
Feminism, anti-feminism and the study of men
Whatever happened to patriarchy?
Gender symmetry and the anti-feminist backlash
Gender-responsivity and the problem of masculinity
Note
References 5. Gender-responsive justice: critical appraisals
Feminism and the critique of gender-responsive justice
Gender-responsive justice in an era of punitive sentencing.
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ISBN
9780415372244 ((hardback))
0415372240 ((hardback))
9780367227210 ((paperback))
0367227215 ((paperback))
LCCN
2017005713
OCLC
958459904
Other standard number
40027547760
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