Linnea OEsterman

Penal Cultures and Female Desistance

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on comparative research offering insight into the female journey towards desistance in Sweden and England, this book considers how the lived experience of desisting from crime compares across contrasting penological landscapes.

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Produktdetails

• International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780367481995
• ISBN-10: 0367481995
• Artikelnr.: 67679379

Autorenporträt

Linnéa Österman is an early career researcher and lecturer at the University of Greenwich. Her research interests revolve around gender and crime, desistance, qualitative comparative criminology, Nordic criminal justice and restorative interventions. Completing her doctorate in Criminology at the University of Surrey in early 2016, Linnéa has been involved in a number of research projects focusing on women's experiences of justice in various cultures and contexts over the last 10 years. She is a passionate criminologist and a social justice optimist, and dabbles with music-making in her spare time.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing penal cultures and female desistance 2. Gender, penality and
desistance in cross-national contexts 3. Researching women's journey
towards desistance in diverse cultures and contexts 4. Mapping the female
offender's journey: Points of departure 5. Penological landscapes and
female perspectives: 'Nordic Exceptionalism' and 'Anglophone Excess' 6. The
female route out: Barriers, 'ladders' and the role of relationality 7. The
female route out: Employment, inclusion and participation 8. Concluding
thoughts on penal cultures and female desistance Appendix