Desisting sisters : gender, power and desistance in the criminal (in)justice system /

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Author / Creator:Barr, Úna, author.
Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Description:1 online resource (x, 270 pages)
Language:English
Series:Critical Criminological Perspectives
Critical criminological perspectives.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12455893
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ISBN:9783030142766
3030142760
9783030142759
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 23, 2019).
Summary:This book provides an important, critical, feminist perspective on desistance theory and practice. It is built around 23 original, narrative interviews with women and the staff of the community projects they attended, as well as a year of observations at Northshire Women's Centres. The book is concerned with outlining a feminist approach to desistance which recognises that the majority of women in the criminal justice system come from backgrounds of abuse, economic disadvantage and have alcohol, drug and mental health issues. The book is also be concerned with challenging the dichotomy of narratives of victimisation and survival while recognising that women have agency. In doing so, Desisting Sisters contests the neoliberal and patriarchal approach to desistance which promotes women's role as care givers and unpaid volunteer workers. Ultimately, Barr contends that women's desistance can resist neo-liberal, patriarchal constructs, much in the same way that feminist criminology has contended that women's offending more generally, often does. This book will be of particular use and interest to those studying modules on both traditional and critical criminology, criminal justice, psychology, sociology and social work courses. --
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-030-14276-6

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