Media, Politics and Penal Reform Influencing Women's Punishment
This book examines the nature of relations between penal reform campaigners, journalists and policymakers at the crime-media nexus. With a particular focus on women’s penal policy, Birkett uncovers how reform strategies have augmented and developed under
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This is a unique and innovative series, the first of its kind dedicated entirely to prison scholarship. At a historical point in which the prison population has reached an all-time high, the series seeks to analyse the form, nature and consequences of incarceration and related forms of punishment. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology provides an important forum for burgeoning prison research across the world. Series Advisory Board: Anna Eriksson (Monash University), Andrew M. Jefferson (Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims), Shadd Maruna (Queen’s University Belfast), Jonathon Simon (Berkeley Law, University of California) and Michael Welch (Rutgers University). More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14596
Gemma Birkett
Media, Politics and Penal Reform Influencing Women’s Punishment
Gemma Birkett Department of Sociology City, University of London London, United Kingdom
Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology ISBN 978-1-137-58508-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58509-7
ISBN 978-1-137-58509-7 (eBook)
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‘The work of reformation is a slow one’. Elizabeth Fry, 1827 Quoted in Halliday (2009: 242).
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