Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia

Andrew M. Jefferson is a Senior Researcher at DIGNITY - Danish Institute against Torture. His work focuses on ethnographies of prisons and prison reform processes in the global south and has featured a range of collaborations with activist organizations engaged in torture prevention, human rights work, and prison reform. He co-convenes the Global Prisons Research Network. Aside from issues of prisons and comparative penality, interests include the relation between state and subject in transitional contexts, the hierarchization of human worth, and how to conceptualise human suffering under compromised circumstances. Andrew is author (with Liv Gaborit) of Human Rights in Prisons: Comparing Institutional Encounters in Kosovo, Sierra Leone and the Philippines.Samantha Jeffries is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice/Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University. Her research focuses on marginalized social statuses, criminalization, victimisation and justice. Samantha has conducted research on LGBTIQA+ domestic violence, the sex industry, problem-solving courts, sentencing, gender and Indigeneity. In focus more recently has been the needs and experiences of domestic violence victims in the family law system and restorative justice processes. Since 2015, she has been collaborating with the Thailand Institute of Justice undertaking studies in Southeast Asia and Kenya on gendered pathways to criminalization, women's experiences of imprisonment, as well as re-integration and human rights. She has co-authored a book on domestic violence, published articles in Criminology and the British Journal of Criminology and conducted training on the Bangkok Rules with prison personnel in Thailand, Kenya and Indonesia for the Thailand Institute of Justice and UNODC.

This 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.

• Chapter 1. Introduction to Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia; Samantha Jeffries and Andrew M. Jefferson OPEN ACCESSChapter 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 RaoChapter 11. Conclusion: Decentring Research and Practice Through Mutual Participation; Andrew M. Jefferson and Samantha Jeffries OPEN ACCESS