Gender responsive justice : a critical appraisal / Karen Evans.

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Evans, Karen, 1961- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
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145 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Routledge critical studies in crime, diversity and criminal justice [More in this series]
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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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • References
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 9780415372244 ((hardback))
    • 0415372240 ((hardback))
    • 9780367227210 ((paperback))
    • 0367227215 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2017005713
    OCLC
    958459904
    Other standard number
    • 40027547760
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