Gendered Justice

Editor Lucy Baldwin is an Associate Professor at Durham University. A qualified social worker and probation officer she has worked in both community-based and custodial settings. Her publications include Mothering Justice (Waterside Press, 2015) and Motherhood In and After Prison (Waterside Press, 2022). She has contributed to policy and practice change in the Criminal Justice System in the UK and is co-convenor of the international research network Women, Family, Crime and Justice. The author of the Foreword Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe is Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

Foreword by Loraine Gelsthorpe; Introduction (Lucy Baldwin); Adopting a Whole-Systems Approach - Why a Women’s Specialist Team Model Makes Sense (Claire Morley and Claire Rushton); Desistance and the Stigma Machine - Being a ‘Good Woman’ (Úna Barr and Natalie Rutter); ‘They Just Didn’t Want to Help Me’ - The Criminalisation of Coerced Women Co-offenders (Charlotte Barlow); ‘Racism is Very Much There’ - Validating Racial Trauma in the Context of Criminal Justice (Monica Thomas and Sinem Bozkurt); A Mother’s Work is Never Done - Mothers Affected by Remand (Isla Masson and Natalie Booth); ‘And Still I Rise’ - Hope, Trauma and Imprisoned Women (Christy Pitfield and Anna Motz); Women’s Experiences of Presenting as Homeless Post Domestic Abuse - Homelessness Policy and Domestic Abuse — The Changing Legislative Context (Kelly Henderson and Yoric Irving-Clarke); ‘There’s Nothing Left, Nothing Left of You’ - Criminalised Women and Trauma (Dr Nicola Harding); ‘It’s Not a Joke — It’s My Life’ (Lucy Baldwin, Abigay Green and Melanie Brown); ‘We are the Ones’: Joining Forces and Creating New Tools for Change - Challenges for Academia, Charities and Practitioners (Kate Paradine); Afterword, Summary and Closing Thoughts (Lucy Baldwin); References and Bibliography; Index.