The Routledge Handbook of Women's Experiences of Criminal Justice

Isla Masson is a Criminologist and Researcher at The Open University. Her research interests include women in the criminal justice system, motherhood, incarceration, remand, care leavers and restorative justice. Her book Incarcerating Motherhood (Routledge, 2019) was based on her doctoral research, which explored the longevity of short terms of incarceration on mothers. She is a trustee at The Boaz Project, which is a therapeutic work environment for adults with learning disabilities, and previously volunteered with the Independent Monitoring Board. Natalie Booth is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Bath Spa University. Her doctorate explored ‘maternal imprisonment and family life’ resulting in a book revealing the previously untold experiences of those charged with the responsibility of looking after children of female prisoners ‘from the caregivers’ perspectives’ (2020). Her written work also contributes to our understanding about the maintenance of relationships and family contact during imprisonment, mothers and women in prison and developments in penal policy relating to women and families.

Womanhood as Weakness, or Why Witches Were Witches
Trace M Maddox




Infanticide Cases, Expert Evidence, and the Sympathetic Jury, in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century England
Rachel Dixon




‘Completely innocent or wholly culpable’: Judicial outcomes of women tried for homicide in pre-modern England
Stephanie Brown




Shifting trends and discourses in women’s imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand
Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour and Kirsten Gibson




Criminalised Women and the Risk Lens
Hazel Kemshall




Women’s desistance: A review of the literature through a gendered lens
Madeline Pertrillo




Perpetrators and Victims: Women, double deviance, and the criminal justice system
Vicky Seaman and Orla Lynch




"She Should Have Known": Oversimplified narratives of the victim-offender cycle within women human trafficking ‘offenders’
Alexandra L. A. Baxter




Care-Experienced Women in the Criminal Justice System
Claire Fitzpatrick, Jo Staines and Katie Hunter




Family violence, homelessness and criminalised women: accounting for systemic violence in the Australian post-release milieu
Rebecca Bunn and Elisa Buggy




Domestic abuse as a driver to women’s offending
Jo Roberts




Muslim Women Moving on from Crime
Sofia Buncy, Alexandria Bradley and Sarah Goodwin




Making visible the invisibalised voices of criminalised women in Australia
Debbie Kilroy and Tabitha Lean




Women, Religion and Criminal Justice in Ireland
Lynsey Black




Women’s Experiences of Criminal Justice System in Pursuit of Inheritance: Voices from Pakistan
Iram Rubab




Lived Realities of Spouses of Incarcerated Husbands in India
Rashmi Choudhury




Lesbian Experiences of the Criminal Justice System: A Practitioner Perspective
Kath Wilson




At the intersection of disadvantage, disillusionment and resilience: Black women's experiences in prison
Angela Charles




Remanding Women: Exploring the scope for using therapeutic jurisprudence as a framework in the bail and remand decision-making process
Lisa Mary Armstrong




Being a girl: does it matter in the Belgian Youth Court?
Sofie De Bus




Young Women in Norwegian Courts: A Study of Contemporary Control Strategies
Jane Dullum, Elisabeth Fransson and Sven-Erik Skotte




Assessing the viability of problem-solving courts for criminalised women
Carly Lightowlers and Nicole Benefer




The Gendered Harms of Criminalisation: Buying abortion pills on the internet in Northern Ireland
Goretti Horgan and Linda Moore




The meaning of gender in sentencing domestic violence homicide cases in Poland
Anna Matczak and Emilia Rekosz-Cebula




Being female sex offenders inside the criminal justice system: The Colombian case
Angie Borda-Montenegro




Situating police legitimacy: The accounts of substance-using and sex-working women in Nigeria
Ediomo-Ubong E. Nelson and Aniekan S. Brown




Out of sight, out of mind: The incarceration of cognitively disabled women in Australian prisons
Julie-Anne Toohey




Incarcerated Women’s Experiences in Spain
Carmen Navarro, Anna Meléndez and Jenny Cubells




Peer mentoring for women in prison: experiences of power, control and reliving past trauma
Melissa Henderson and Rosie Meek




Carceral collectivism and incarcerated women’s experiences in Lithuania and Latvia
Rūta Vaičiūnienė, Arta Jalili Idrissi and Artūras Tereškinas




Maternal Imprisonment: The enduring impact of imprisonment on mothers and their children
Lucy Baldwin and Sophie Mitchell




Imprisoned Women and Reproductive Health: A Site of Reproductive Rights Violation?
Emma Milne and Vicki Dabrowski




Mother-infant separations in prison: Why does context matter?
Klare Martin and Claire Powell




Mothering within a Prison Nursery – a review of the literature
Jacqui Johnson




(Wo)men in the middle: the gendered role of supporting prisoners
Natalie Booth and Isla Masson with Ferzana Dakri




A holistic approach to understanding and responding to the multiple and complex needs of women prison leavers in Wales: breaking the cycle of homelessness and reoffending
Caroline Gorden and Kelly Lockwood




"It is nice to know that for once someone is not just saying that they’re backing your corner, they are actually fucking backing your corner": The significance of relational factors in women’s experiences of probation intervention
Natalie Rutter and Julie Eden-Barnard




Women, the pains of imprisonment and public health interventions
Jennifer Ferguson and Maggie Leese




A Darker Tale of Exceptionalism: How Punitive Drug Policies Impact Women’s Experiences of Desistance in Sweden
Robin Gålnander and Linnéa Österman




Accounting for the gendered nature of ‘collateral consequences’ of a criminal record
Nicola A. Collett




A New Emancipatory Script: gendered post-sentence discrimination and experiences of reintegration
Caroline Bald, Rachel Tynan and Olivia Dehnavi




Experiencing the Juvenile Legal System as a Girl: Lessons from Gender-Responsive Approaches and Trauma-Informed Care
Nicole C McKenna, Valerie R Anderson, Eurielle Kiki, and Destinee L Starcher




Imprisoned Women’s Experiences of Trust in Staff-Prisoner Relationships in an English Open Prison
Sarah Waite




Supervising women in the community: A view from Catalonia
Cristina Vasilescu




‘I don’t know where to fit...how to fit back in...as a mum...as a person’: Exploring the implications for practitioners of women’s experiences of resettlement following short-term custody
Laura Haggar




"She has nothing really when she goes out of prison": Community-based practitioners’ perceptions of young women’s pathways through the criminal justice system in Scotland

Annie Rose Crowley