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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

• 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.