Older Women in the Criminal Justice System: Running Out of TimeJessica Kingsley Publishers, 23.06.2004 - 240 Seiten What is life like for the women who grow old behind bars? Azrini Wahidin examines in-depth the experiences and needs of this overlooked group. What happens to the identity and mental health of these women who are closed off from the outside world and without familial networks? What does it feel like to have to carve out a new version of your private self, in a public space? Wahidin shows how ageist and sexist attitudes in criminal procedures and penal policy regulate and discipline the ageing body. She also highlights the failures of practical provisions in prisons to meet the particular needs of this group. Illuminating reading for all those working in the prison services, probation, and the courts, and an important addition to the wider criminology punishment-rehabiliation debate, Older Women in the Criminal Justice System offers a rare view of what happens to the women who grow old in prison. |
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Women on the Edge of Time | 75 |
Now You See Me Now You Dont | 91 |
4 Running Out of Time | 109 |
5 Health Care and the Cost of Imprisonment | 130 |
Older Women in Custody | 153 |
Older Women in the Criminal Justice System | 168 |
Responses to Ageing Women in the Criminal Justice System | 179 |
EXAMPLES OF US CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE OVERFIFTIES | 198 |
PRISON INFORMATION | 201 |
INCENTIVE AND ENHANCED PRIVILEGE SCHEME | 202 |
STATISTICAL INFORMATION | 205 |
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Older Women in the Criminal Justice System: Running Out of Time Azrini Wahidin Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2004 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aday ageing process ageist Alison Anwar Anita Arrowsmith argues behaviour body carceral Carlen Cath Carter chapter constructed crime criminal justice system custody Development and Statistics discipline discourse drugs Edith Ellis elderly offenders elders in prison emphasis in original environment experiences facilities fear feel female elders female offenders femininity Foucault gaze gender gerontology growing old HM Prison Service Home Office identity infantilisation institution Julie June Kate King lack lifers lives male Mary Piper mean Molly Mossdale older offenders older prisoners older women open prison pains of imprisonment penal Penjara person Petra Puddepha Phillipson prison estate prison officers Prison Reform Trust prison regime Prison Service prison system programmes released role sense sentence social society spent in prison Statistics Directorate strip-searches structure techniques there’s things tion total institution Wan-Nita Williams woman women in later women in prison women’s prisons younger women
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 24 - The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. "Where shall I begin, please, your Majesty?" he asked. "Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Seite 35 - Ageism can be seen as a process of systematic stereotyping of and discrimination against people because they are old. just as racism and sexism accomplish this with skin color and gender.
Seite 45 - We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms: it 'excludes', it 'represses', it 'censors', it 'abstracts', it 'masks', it 'conceals'. In fact, power produces; it produces reality; it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth. The individual and the knowledge that may be gained of him belong to this production.
Seite 15 - Her Majesty's Prison Service serves the public by keeping in custody those committed by the courts. Our duty is to look after them with humanity and help them lead law-abiding and useful lives in custody and after release.
Seite 45 - ... is produced from one moment to the next, at every point, or rather in every relation from one point to another. Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.
Seite 44 - ... pass."30 THE STAFF WORLD Humane Standards Most total institutions, most of the time, seem to function merely as storage dumps for inmates, but as previously suggested, they usually present themselves to the public as rational organizations designed consciously, through and through, as effective machines for producing a few officially avowed and officially approved ends.
Seite 37 - It is as though, walking down Shaftesbury Avenue as a fairly young man, I was suddenly kidnapped, rushed into a theatre and made to don the grey hair, the wrinkles and the other attributes of age, then wheeled on stage. Behind the appearance of age I am the same person, with the same thoughts, as when I was younger. (Puner, 1978: 7) In these examples it is the ageing mask which is pathological or deviant and the inner essential self which remains - even beneath or 'inside' Alzheimer's disease - as...
Seite 52 - In discipline, it is the subjects who have to be seen. Their visibility assures the hold of the power that is exercised over them. It is the fact of being constantly seen, of being able always to be seen, that maintains the disciplined individual in his subjection.
Seite 34 - When the aging process is complete, the equilibrium which existed in middle life between the individual and his society has given way to a new equilibrium characterized by a greater distance and an altered type of relationship.