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Women and punishment : the struggle for justice / edited by Pat Carlen ; with a foreword by Sir David Ramsbotham.

Cullompton, Devon, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan Pub., 2002.

xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

The major objective of this book is to describe and analyse contemporary opportunities for, and barriers to, both the reduction of female prison populations and the reduction of the pain of those women who continue to be imprisoned.

Women prisoners.

Female offenders -- Effect of imprisonment on.

Female offenders -- Rehabilitation.

Women prisoners -- Great Britain.

Female offenders -- Rehabilitation -- Great Britain.

Carlen, Pat.

Several of the papers included were presented at a conference entitled, Women's Imprisonment: Models of Change and Cross-National Lessons.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: women and punishment / Pat Carlen -- Gender issues in penal policy and penal theory / Barbara Hudson -- Rendering women punishable: the making of a penal crisis / Anne Worrall -- Youth prostitution policy reform: new discourse, same old story / Joanna Phoenix -- A gender-wise prison: opportunities for, and limits to, reform / Kate De Cou -- Women-centred: the West Mercia community-based programme for women offenders / Jenny Roberts -- The women at risk programme / Sally Poteat -- Women's imprisonment: cross-national lessons / Pat Carlen.

Women's prisons in England: barriers to reform / Jackie Lowthian -- Time to think again about cognitive behavioural programmes / Kathleen Kendall -- Creating choices: reflecting on choices / Kelly Hannah-Moffat -- New discourses of justification and reform for women's imprisonment in England / Pat Carlen.

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