Women exiting prison : critical essays on gender, post-release support and survival / Edited by Bree Carlton and Marie Segrave.

Author/creator Carlton, Bree
Other author Segrave, Marie, 1979-
Format Book
PublicationLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Descriptionxvii, 212 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Women prisoners.
Women ex-convicts.

SeriesRoutledge studies in crime and society ; 5
Routledge studies in crime and society ; 5. ^A1145006
Contents Preface / by Pat Carlen -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: gendered transcarceral realities / by Marie Segrave and Bree Carlton -- Incarceration, welfare state, and labor market nexus : the increasing significance of gender in the prison system / by Kristin Bumiller -- Post-release support for women in England and Wales : the big picture / by Kathleen Kendall -- Therapeutic correctional spaces, transcarceral interventions : post-release support structures and realities experienced by women in Victoria, Australia / by Bree Carlton and Eileen Baldry -- To thrive or simply survive : parole and the post-release needs of Canadian women exiting prison / by Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Nathan Innocente -- Continuing systemic discrimination : indigenous Australian women exiting prison / by Eileen Baldry -- Post-release reality for women prisoners in Northern Ireland : the challenges of "resettlement" in a society emerging from conflict / by Jacqueline Kerr and Linda Moore1 -- A bit neo-liberal, a bit Fabian : interventionist narratives in a diversionary programme for women / by Mary Corcoran and Claire Fox -- Decentring the prison : abolitionist approaches to working with criminalized women / by Debbie Kilroy, Phoebe Barton, Suzi Quixley, Amanda George and Emma Russell -- Resisting gendered carceral landscapes / by Cassandra Shaylor and Erica R. Meiners -- Postscript: a radical vision for system and social change / by Bree Carlton and Marie Segrave.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012044634
ISBN9780415630764 (hbk.)
ISBN0415630762 (hbk.)