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Book SynopsisThis volume contains two Open Access Chapters.
Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia features contributions from activist scholars grappling to understand and alleviate the compound sufferings of women and LGBTIQA+ persons as they encounter Southeast Asian criminal justice systems. The collection demonstrates that it is critical that the drivers of gendered harms and the way gendered needs intersect with other inequalities are better understood and adequately reflected in law, policy and practice.
Trade ReviewThis exciting new collection reinvigorates prison studies and feminist criminology. Offering a sobering glimpse into the lived reality of prisons in Southeast Asia, it reminds us of the salience of gender in understanding incarceration and the urgent need for action.
-- Mary Bosworth, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
The breadth of issues covered makes this contribution an invaluable resource for criminologists, social activists, jurists and policymakers working to enhance the efficacy of criminal justice policy and practice in Southeast Asia and elsewhere.
-- Juan Marcellus Tauri, University of Waikato and Centre for Global Indigeneity
This collection provides data, analyses, theorizations and experiences of populations that much of the Western world has ignored or overlooked. Shifting criminology’s gaze toward such issues from a Southeast Asian perspective is a most welcome and much-needed adjustment.
-- Deborah H. Drake, Department of Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia; Samantha Jeffries and Andrew M. Jefferson OPEN ACCESS
Chapter 2. Gender and Imprisonment in Contemporary Myanmar; Andrew M. Jefferson and Myanmar Research Team
Chapter 3. Perpetrators and/or Victims? The Case of Women Facing the Death Penalty in Malaysia; Lucy Harry
Chapter 4. Supporting Female Prisoners and their Families: The Case of Cambodia; Billy Gorter and Philip J Gover
Chapter 5. Catching Flies: How Women are Exploited through Prison Work in Myanmar; Myanmar Research Team
Chapter 6. Experiences of Ethnic Minority Women Imprisoned in Thailand; Prarthana Rao, Min Jee Yamada Park, and Samantha Jeffries
Chapter 7. Older Women's Pathways to Prison in Thailand: Economic Precarity, Caregiving, and Adversity; Tristan Russell, Samantha Jeffries, and Chontit Chuenurah
Chapter 8. Transgender Prisoners in Thailand: Gender Identity, Vulnerabilities, Lives Behind Bars, and Prison Policies; Jutathorn Pravattiyagul
Chapter 9. Gendered Pathways to Prison: Women’s Routes to Death Row in the Philippines; Diana Therese M. Veloso
Chapter 10. Expanding the Promise of the Bangkok Rules in Southeast Asia and Beyond; Chontit Chuenurah, Barbara Owen, and Prarthana Rao
Chapter 11. Conclusion: Decentring Research and Practice Through Mutual Participation; Andrew M. Jefferson and Samantha Jeffries OPEN ACCESS
