Criminalized mothers, criminalizing mothering / edited by Joanne Minaker and Bryan Hogeveen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogeveen, Bryan, 1972- author, editor.

Minaker, Joanne Cheryl, 1974- author, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers--Effect of imprisonment on.

Mothers.

Women prisoners.

Female offenders.

Mother and child.

Marginality, Social.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 409 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"As the fastest growing prison population worldwide, more and more women are living in cages and most of them are mothers. This alarming trend has huge ramifications for women, children and communities across the globe. Empathy for mothers behind bars and concern for criminalized mothers in the community is in short supply. Mothers are criminalized for their vulnerabilities and for making unpopular but difficult choices under material and ideological conditions not of their own choosing. Criminalized Mothers, Criminalizing Mothering shines a spot- light on mothers who are, by law or social regulation, criminalized and examines their troubles and triumphs. This book offers a critical and compassionate lens on social (in)justice, mass incarceration, and collective miseries women experience (i.e., economic inequality, gendered violence, devalued care work, lone-parenting etc.). This book is also about mothers' encounters with systems of control, confinement, and criminalization, but also their experiences of care"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Discourses and practices of maternal criminalization

For my kids

Treasures

Settler colonialism and carceral control of indigenous mothers and their children

'Sadly it appears the mother saw more of the police than she did her children'

Mothering outside-in

International law criminalizing motherhood

Race, nation and citizenship in "mothers who kill their children"

Legal and medical maneuvers

Pregnant, incarcerated and overlooked

Maternal narratives/ beyond criminalization

Mothering with HIV

"Do you have my son?"

Mothering at the margins

Mothering in the context of domestic abuse and encounters with child protection services

Marginalization and hope

"Something worth living for"

My mothering story.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-926452-81-X