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Resisting Carceral Violence
eBook - Women's Imprisonment and the Politics of Abolition
ISBN/EAN: 9783030016951
Umbreit-Nr.: 6062885
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S., 4.02 MB
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 05.12.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- <p>This book explores the dramatic evolution of a feminist movement that mobilised to challenge a womens prison system in crisis. Through in-depth historical research conducted in the Australian state of Victoria that spans the 1980s and 1990s, the authors uncover how incarcerated women have worked productively with feminist activists and community coalitions to expose, critique and resist the conditions and harms of their confinement.&nbsp;<i>Resisting Carceral Violence</i><i>&nbsp;</i>tells the story of how activiststhrough a combination of creative direct actions, reformist lobbying and legal challengesforged an anti-carceral feminist movement that&nbsp;traversed&nbsp;the prison walls. This powerful history provides vital lessons for service providers, social justice advocates and campaigners, academics and students concerned with&nbsp;the violence of incarceration. It calls&nbsp;for a willingness to look beyond the prison&nbsp;and instead embrace creative solutions to broader structural inequalities&nbsp;and&nbsp;social harm.</p>
- Kurztext
- This book explores the dramatic evolution of a feminist movement that mobilised to challenge a women's prison system in crisis. Through in-depth historical research conducted in the Australian state of Victoria that spans the 1980s and 1990s, the authors uncover how incarcerated women have worked productively with feminist activists and community coalitions to expose, critique and resist the conditions and harms of their confinement.&nbsp;Resisting Carceral Violence&nbsp;tells the story of how activists-through a combination of creative direct actions, reformist lobbying and legal challenges-forged an anti-carceral feminist movement that&nbsp;traversed&nbsp;the prison walls. This powerful history provides vital lessons for service providers, social justice advocates and campaigners, academics and students concerned with&nbsp;the violence of incarceration. It calls&nbsp;for a willingness to look beyond the prison&nbsp;and instead embrace creative solutions to broader structural inequalities&nbsp;and&nbsp;social harm.
- Autorenportrait
- <p>Bree Carlton is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Australia. Her research explores strategies for preventing and resisting against prison generated violence and harm. Bree authored<i>Imprisoning Resistance</i>(Federation Press 2007) and is co-editor of<i>Women Exiting Prison</i>(Routledge 2013)<i>.</i></p><p>Emma K. Russell is a Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, Australia. Her work has been published in various journals, including<i>Theoretical Criminology, Critical Criminology</i>and<i>Crime Media Culture. </i><br></p><br>