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Record Nr.

UNINA9910800038803321

Titolo

Women, punishment and social justice : human rights and penal practices / / edited by Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-19370-7

0-203-08475-6

1-299-16093-X

1-136-19371-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Routledge frontiers of criminal justice

Altri autori (Persone)

MallochMargaret S

McIvorGill <1959->

Disciplina

364.6082

Soggetti

Women prisoners - Social conditions

Alternatives to imprisonment

Corrections

Human rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. The penal context -- pt. III. Community sanctions, human rights and social justice -- pt. IV. Concluding thoughts.

Sommario/riassunto

The prison has often been the focus for concerns about human rights violations, and campaigns aimed at achieving social justice, for those with an interest in the criminalisation of women. To reduce the number of women imprisoned, a range of policy initiatives have been developed to increase the use of community-based responses to women in conflict with the law. These initiatives have tended to operate alongside reforms to the prison estate and are often defined as 'community punishment', 'community sanctions' and 'alternatives to imprisonment'. This book challenges the contention th