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Women, punishment and social justice : human rights and penal practices / edited by Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
- Routledge frontiers of criminal justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women prisoners--Social conditions.
- Women prisoners.
- Alternatives to imprisonment.
- Corrections.
- Human rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- pt. I. Introduction
- pt. II. The penal context
- pt. III. Community sanctions, human rights and social justice
- pt. IV. Concluding thoughts.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-19370-7
- 0-203-08475-6
- 1-299-16093-X
- 1-136-19371-5
- 9780203084755
- OCLC:
- 829461189
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