Harsh Punishment

by Sandy Cook (Editor), Susanne Davies (Editor)

Overview

While the number of incarcerated women is dramatically escalating, women prisoners throughout the world are largely an invisible and neglected population. These comparative essays examine thoroughly the unique problems, challenges, and issues facing women inmates in the United States, Canada, England, New Zealand, Poland, and Thailand.

The insightful volume fills a major gap in criminal justice literature, and it provides a solid basis for further discussion of the too-long ignored subject of women's imprisonment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555534110
Publisher:	Northeastern University Press
Publication date:	12/22/1999
Series:	Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.76(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction
Will Anyone Ever Listen? An Introductory Note (Sandy Cook and Susanne Davies, both La Trobe University)

Speaking Out: Personal Accounts of Women's Imprisonment

One Life in Prison: Perception, Reflection, and Empowerment (Marcia Bunney)
No Winners Here (Lauren Shanahan, Australia)
The Violence of Women's Imprisonment: A View from the Inside (Elizabeth Morgan, Washington, D.C.)
Ali's Visit (Helen Barnicle, Australia)

Understanding the Criminalization and Imprisonment of Women

The Sex of Crime and Punishment (Susanne Davies and Sandy Cook)

Current Trends in Women's Imprisonment

Women and Imprisonment in the United States: The Gendered Consequences of the U.S. Imprisonment Binge (Barbara Owen, California State University, Fresno)
Transformative Justice vs. Re-entrenched Correctionalism: Women's Imprisonment in Canada (Karlene Faith, Simon Fraser University)
Women's Imprisonment in England: Current Issues (Pat Carlen, Bath University)
Addressing Women's Needs or Empty Rhetoric? An Examination of New Zealand's Policy for Women in Prison (Allison Morris and Venezia Kingi, both Victoria University)
On the Margin of Life: Women's Imprisonment in Poland (Monika Platek, Warsaw University)
Unheard Voices: Burmese Women in Immigration Detention in Thailand (Carol Ransley, La Trobe University)

Current Issues in Women's Imprisonment

The New Prison Culture: Making Millions from Misery (Amanda George, Australia)
The "War on Drugs": A War Against Women? Investigating the Impact of the "War on Drugs" on the Incarceration of Women in the United States (Stephanie R. Bush-Baskette, Florida State University)
Crime, Gender, and Justice: African American Women in Prison in the United States (Evelyn Gilbert, Florida State University)
A Video Camera Can Change Your Life (Margaret Shaw, Concordia University)
Neglect or Punishment? Failing to Meet the Needs of Women Post-Release (Susanne Davies and Sandy Cook, both La Trobe University)
Diminishing Opportunities: Researching Women's Imprisonment (Cherry Grimwade, La Trobe University)