Older Women in the Criminal Justice System

Running Out of Time

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

What is life like for the women who grow old behind bars? Azrini Wahidin examines in-depth the experiences and needs of this overlooked group. What happens to the identity and mental health of these women who are closed off from the outside world and without familial networks? What does it feel like to have to carve out a new version of your private self, in a public space? Wahidin shows how ageist and sexist attitudes in criminal procedures and penal policy regulate and discipline the ageing body. She also highlights the failures of practical provisions in prisons to meet the particular needs of this group. Illuminating reading for all those working in the prison services, probation, and the courts, and an important addition to the wider criminology punishment-rehabiliation debate, Older Women in the Criminal Justice System offers a rare view of what happens to the women who grow old in prison.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-06-23
Mått:157 x 231 x 10 mm
Vikt:362 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN:9781843101703

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Azrini Wahidin is a lecturer of Criminology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent. She has written extensively on gerontology and is a frequent contributor to the media, as well as being a consultant for the Channel 4 documentary, Bus Pass Bandits. She is currently on the management committee for Women in Prison, and on the Executive Council of the British Society of Criminology.

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A lecturer in Criminology, Dr Wahidin clearly knows her field and quotes a wide range of sources in her book. This provides a useful insight into the experience and needs of a forgotten group within the criminal justice system.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. 1. Women and the Criminal Justice System: Discipline and Punish. 2. From Court to Prison: Women on the Edge of Time. 3. Prison Life: Now You See Me Now You Don't. 4. Counting the Cost of Imprisonment: Speaking Up? 5. Health Care and the Cost of Imprisonment. 6. Within These Walls: Older Women in Custody. 7. Forget Me Not: Criminal Women. 8. Responses to Ageing: Women in the Criminal Justice System. Index.