Women Exiting Prison: Critical Essays on Gender, Post-Release Support and Survival - Hardcover
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Women exiting prison is a collection of critical essays presenting groundbreaking research on women's post-imprisonment policy, practice and experiences. It is the first collection to offer international perspectives on gender, criminalisation, the effects of imprisonment and women-centred approaches to the short and long-term support of women exiting prison. It offers cutting-edge insights into contemporary policy developments and women's experiences across the US, the UK, Australiam, Canada and Northern Ireland.
Bree Carlton is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University, Australia. She has undertaken research and published widely in the areas of history and prison studies. Her book, Imprisoning Resistance: Life and Death in an Australian Supermax, was published by the Sydney Institute of Criminology Series in 2007 and nominated in the True Crime category of the 8th Davitt Awards in 2008. Her collaborative research with Marie Segrave has focused on gender, imprisonment and post-release survival while her current research program has extended to focus on penal reform and abolition.
Marie Segrave is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, Australia. Marie researches and publishes across a range of feminist and critical criminological concerns including human trafficking, labour exploitation and migration, and post-imprisonment. She is co-author of Sex Trafficking: International context and response (Routledge 2009) Her collaborative research with Bree Carlton on women's survival post-imprisonment has been published widely, including journals such as Punishment and Society and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology.
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