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Book SynopsisGendered Justice seeks to enhance knowledge and practice in relation to criminalised women and anyone affected by their imprisonment. It calls for compassionate trauma-informed, and gender-specific approaches. As editor Dr Lucy Baldwin explains, ‘How society engages with women coming into contact with the Criminal Justice System can have a profound and lasting effect on their lives, so it is important to ensure that that impact is an informed and positive one’. In chapters by experts from diverse backgrounds, the book examines a carefully selected mix of developments including in topical areas such as women’s rights, help and support, stigma, domestic abuse, sentencing, racism, disadvantage, poverty, deviance, labelling, homelessness, stereotyping, missed opportunities, silencing, fairness, prison visits, desistance from crime, unmet needs, and making a difference.
Table of ContentsForeword by Loraine Gelsthorpe; Introduction (Lucy Baldwin); Adopting a Whole-Systems Approach - Why a Women’s Specialist Team Model Makes Sense (Claire Morley and Claire Rushton); Desistance and the Stigma Machine - Being a ‘Good Woman’ (Úna Barr and Natalie Rutter); ‘They Just Didn’t Want to Help Me’ - The Criminalisation of Coerced Women Co-offenders (Charlotte Barlow); ‘Racism is Very Much There’ - Validating Racial Trauma in the Context of Criminal Justice (Monica Thomas and Sinem Bozkurt); A Mother’s Work is Never Done - Mothers Affected by Remand (Isla Masson and Natalie Booth); ‘And Still I Rise’ - Hope, Trauma and Imprisoned Women (Christy Pitfield and Anna Motz); Women’s Experiences of Presenting as Homeless Post Domestic Abuse - Homelessness Policy and Domestic Abuse — The Changing Legislative Context (Kelly Henderson and Yoric Irving-Clarke); ‘There’s Nothing Left, Nothing Left of You’ - Criminalised Women and Trauma (Dr Nicola Harding); ‘It’s Not a Joke — It’s My Life’ (Lucy Baldwin, Abigay Green and Melanie Brown); ‘We are the Ones’: Joining Forces and Creating New Tools for Change - Challenges for Academia, Charities and Practitioners (Kate Paradine); Afterword, Summary and Closing Thoughts (Lucy Baldwin); References and Bibliography; Index.
