Women Exiting Prison : Critical Essays on Gender, Post-release Support and Survival (Hardcover)

Preface, Pat Carlen  Introduction: Gendered transcarceral realities, Marie Segrave and Bree Carlton  1. Incarceration, welfare state and labor market nexus: the increasing significance of gender in the prison system, Kristin Bumiller  2. Post-release support for women in England and Wales: The big picutre, Kathleen Kendall  3. Therapeutic correctional spaces, transcarceral interventions: post-release support structures and realities experienced by women in Victoria, Australia, Bree Carlton and Eileen Baldry  4. To thrive or simply survive: parole and the post-release needs of Canadian women exiting prison, Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Nathan Innocente  5. Continuing systemic discrimination: indigenous Australian women exiting prison, Eileen Baldry  6. Post-release reality for women prisoners in Northern Ireland: the challenges of 'resettlement' in a society emerging from conflict, Jacqueline Kerr and Linda Moore  7. A bit neo-liberal, a bit Fabian: interventionist narratives in a diversionary programme for women, Mary Corcoran and Claire Fox  8. Decentring the prison: abolitionist approaches to working with criminalized women, Debbie Kilroy, Phoebe Barton, Suzi Quixley, Amanda George and Emma Russell  9. Resisting gendered carceral landscapes, Cassandra Shaylor and Erica R. Meiners  Postscript: A radical vision for system and social change, Bree Carlton and Marie Segrave