书目名称 | Desisting Sisters | 副标题 | Gender, Power and De | 编辑 | Úna Barr | 视频video | | 概述 | Outlines a feminist approach to desistance.Examines and analyses desistance journeys of women with community sentences, to fill a gap in the literature which has focused primarily on the experiences o | 丛书名称 | Critical Criminological Perspectives | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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, ps | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | 关键词 | desistance; social bonds; family and prison; disadvantaged; female offenders; women offenders; criminology | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14276-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-14276-6Series ISSN 2731-0604 Series E-ISSN 2731-0612 | issn_series | 2731-0604 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 |
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