Desisting sisters : gender, power and desistance in the criminal (in)justice system / Úna Barr.
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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| Series: | Critical criminological perspectives.
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Table of Contents:
- Definining desistance
- Explaining desistance : traditional persepctives
- A case of growing up? A feminist critique of maturational theory
- "A good job and the love of a good woman" : a feminist critique of social bonds theory
- All in the head? A feminist critique of subjective theory
- (In)justice systems
- Making the invisible visible
- Conclusion.