Lives of Incarcerated Women An international perspective [Hardcover]

Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research from around the world, this book brings together renowned international scholars to explore life-course perspectives on womens imprisonment. Instead of covering only one aspect of womens carceral experiences, this book offers a broader perspective that encompasses womens pathways to prison, their prison experiences and the effects of these experiences on their childrens well-being, as well as their subsequent chances of desisting from crime.

Encompassing perspectives from theNetherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Scotland, the United States, Ukraine and Sri Lanka, this book uncovers the similarities across time and space in women offenders life histories and those of their children and examines the differences in womens experiences and trajectories by shedding light on the moderating effects of particular cultural contexts.

Lives of Incarcerated Womenwill be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of punishment, penology, life-course criminology, women and crime and gender studies. It will also be of great interest to practitioners.

Introduction, Candace Kruttschnitt and Catrien Bijleveld  Part I: Pathways to Prison  1. From juvie to jail: Gendered risk and protective factors for adult incarceration among high-risk institutionalized boys and girls in the Netherlands, Katharina J. Joosen, Mioara V. Zoutewelle-Terovan, Anne-marie Slotboom and Victor R. van der Geest  2. It all has to do with men. How abusive romantic relationships impact on female pathways to prison, An Nuytiens and Jenneke Christiaens  3. On the fringes: Female prisoners in Ukraine. Are they Unique?, Marianna Klochko, Alexei Serdyuk, Oleksandr Golovko and Olena SyniavskaPart II: &l£!