What is life like for the women who grow old behind bars? Azrini Wahidin examines in-depth the experiences and needs of this overlooked group. What happens to the identity and mental health of these women who are closed off from the outside world and without familial networks? What does it feel like to have to carve out a new version of your private self, in a public space? Wahidin shows how ageist and sexist attitudes in criminal procedures and penal policy regulate and discipline the ageing body. She also highlights the failures of practical provisions in prisons to meet the particular needs of this group. Illuminating reading for all those working in the prison services, probation, and the courts, and an important addition to the wider criminology punishment-rehabiliation debate, Older Women in the Criminal Justice System offers a rare view of what happens to the women who grow old in prison.
Author(s): Azrini Wahidin
Edition: 1
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 240
Cover......Page 1
Older Women in the Criminal Justice System: Running Out of Time......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
List of Tables......Page 10
Introduction......Page 11
1. Women and the Criminal Justice System: Discipline and Punish......Page 45
2. From Court to Prison: Women on the Edge of Time......Page 77
3. Prison Life: Now You See Me Now You Don’t......Page 93
4. Running Out of Time......Page 111
5. Health Care and the Cost of Imprisonment......Page 132
6. Within These Walls: Older Women in Custody......Page 155
7. Forget Me Not: Older Women in the Criminal Justice System......Page 170
8. Concluding Comments: Responses to Ageing – Women in the Criminal Justice System......Page 181
APPENDIX A: EXAMPLES OF US CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE OVER-FIFTIES......Page 200
APPENDIX B: PRISON INFORMATION......Page 203
APPENDIX C: INCENTIVE AND ENHANCED PRIVILEGE SCHEME......Page 204
APPENDIX D: STATISTICAL INFORMATION......Page 207
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 217
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 235
AUTHOR INDEX......Page 240
