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Women,CrimeandJusticeinContext;editedbyAnitaGibbsandFairleigh EvelynGilmour Format:Royal(156×234mm);Style:Supp;Font:Bembo; Dir:T:/2-Pagination/WCRJ/ApplicationFiles/9780367321420_text.3d; Created:08/12/2021@11:34:08 WOMEN, CRIME AND JUSTICE IN CONTEXT This book presents contemporary feminist approaches to key issues in criminal justice.ItdrawstogetherkeyresearchersfromAustraliaandAotearoaNewZealand to offer a context-specific textbook that covers all of the major debates in the dis- cipline in an accessible way. This book examines both the foundational texts and cutting-edge contributions to the topic and acknowledges the unique challenges and debates in the local Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand context. Written as an entry-level text, it introduces undergraduate students to key theories, research and and debates on the topics of offending, victimisation and the criminal justice system. It explores key topics in feminist criminology with chapters exploring sex work, prison abolition- ism, community punishment, media representations of crime and victims, and the impacts of digital technology on gendered violence. Centring on an intersectional approach, the book includes chapters that focus on disability, queer criminology, Indigenous perspectives, migration and service-user perspectives. The book con- cludes by exploring future directions in feminist approaches to crime and justice. This textbook will be essential reading for undergraduates and researchers studying feminist criminology, gender and crime, queer criminology, sociolegal studies, intersectionality, sociology and criminal justice. Anita Gibbs is Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Gender Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Women,CrimeandJusticeinContext;editedbyAnitaGibbsandFairleigh EvelynGilmour Format:Royal(156×234mm);Style:Supp;Font:Bembo; Dir:T:/2-Pagination/WCRJ/ApplicationFiles/9780367321420_text.3d; Created:08/12/2021@11:34:10 FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY This series is a natural home for Criminology research with a Feminist Studies focus. Bringing together original, innovative and topical books that showcase cut- ting edge theory and empirical research, it is a focal point around which the field can continue to develop and flourish. The series is broad in scope, in recognition of the diverse nature of research that is undertaken relating to Feminist Studies, Crime and Criminal justice. Gender, Homicide and the Politics of Responsibility Ashlee Gore Women, Crime and Justice in Context: Contemporary Perspectives in Feminist Criminology from Australia and New Zealand Edited by: Anita Gibbs and Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities: Shut Out, Shut In Julie-Anne Toohey Women,CrimeandJusticeinContext;editedbyAnitaGibbsandFairleigh EvelynGilmour Format:Royal(156×234mm);Style:Supp;Font:Bembo; Dir:T:/2-Pagination/WCRJ/ApplicationFiles/9780367321420_text.3d; Created:08/12/2021@11:34:10 WOMEN, CRIME AND JUSTICE IN CONTEXT Contemporary Perspectives in Feminist Criminology from Australia and New Zealand Edited by Anita Gibbs and Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour Women,CrimeandJusticeinContext;editedbyAnitaGibbsandFairleigh EvelynGilmour Format:Royal(156×234mm);Style:Supp;Font:Bembo; Dir:T:/2-Pagination/WCRJ/ApplicationFiles/9780367321420_text.3d; Created:08/12/2021@11:34:13 Firstpublished2022 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 605ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10158 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2022selectionandeditorialmatter,AnitaGibbsandFairleighEvelynGilmour; individualchapters,thecontributors TherightofAnitaGibbsandFairleighEvelynGilmourtobeidentifiedasthe authorsoftheeditorialmaterial,andoftheauthorsfortheirindividualchapters, hasbeenassertedinaccordancewithsections77and78oftheCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintentto infringe. BritishLibraryCataloguing-in-PublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Acatalogrecordhasbeenrequestedforthisbook ISBN:978-0-367-32142-0(hbk) ISBN:978-0-367-32143-7(pbk) ISBN:978-0-429-31697-5(ebk) DOI:10.4324/9780429316975 TypesetinBembo byTaylor&FrancisBooks Women,CrimeandJusticeinContext;editedbyAnitaGibbsandFairleigh EvelynGilmour Format:Royal(156×234mm);Style:Supp;Font:Bembo; Dir:T:/2-Pagination/WCRJ/ApplicationFiles/9780367321420_text.3d; Created:08/12/2021@11:34:13 CONTENTS List of contributors vii Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction 1 Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour and Anita Gibbs 2 Feminist criminology 13 Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour 3 Gender and victimology: A necessary pairing 27 Jan Jordan 4 Gender, criminal law and violence against women: Mapping the limits of legal interventions and approaches to reform 44 Kate Fitz-Gibbon 5 Women in the criminal justice system 57 Kate Seymour 6 Sex work, feminism and the legal system: Aotearoa in a global context 73 Lynzi Armstrong 7 Women, crime and the media 87 Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour 8 Violence against women in true crime podcasts: Beyond representation and on to justice in the late-modern landscape 102 Women,CrimeandJusticeinContext;editedbyAnitaGibbsandFairleigh EvelynGilmour Format:Royal(156×234mm);Style:Supp;Font:Bembo; Dir:T:/2-Pagination/WCRJ/ApplicationFiles/9780367321420_text.3d; Created:08/12/2021@11:34:13 vi Contents Laura Vitis 9 Restorative justice in the context of gender-based violence and harm 119 Andrea Pa˘ro¸sanu 10 Punishment in the community: Community sentences and gender 134 Anita Gibbs 11 Post-prison experiences and women 150 Kirsten Gibson 12 Women, incarceration and settler colonial control 165 Tracey McIntosh 13 Queer criminology 180 Angela Dwyer 14 Women and girls with neurodisabilities and mental health issues in the criminal justice system 194 Anita Gibbs 15 “Nothing about us, without us”: Centring the voices of criminalised women 210 Debbie Kilroy and Suzi Quixley 16 Women and crimmigration 224 Brandy Cochrane 17 Feminist prison abolitionism 239 Ti Lamusse 18 Conclusions 253 Anita Gibbs and Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour Index 260 Women,CrimeandJusticeinContext;editedbyAnitaGibbsandFairleigh EvelynGilmour Format:Royal(156×234mm);Style:Supp;Font:Bembo; Dir:T:/2-Pagination/WCRJ/ApplicationFiles/9780367321420_text.3d; Created:08/12/2021@11:34:13 CONTRIBUTORS Lynzi Armstrong is a senior lecturer in criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. For more than a decade, her research has been focused on the impacts of sex work laws on sex workers’ rights and safety. Her recent projects have focused on the experiences of street-based sex workers, the impacts of Section 19 of the Prostitution Reform Act, and on stigma and discrimination relating to sex work in the context of diverse legislative frameworks. BrandyCochraneisalecturerandresearcherincriminologyatVictoriaUniversity, Australia. Brandy’s current research focuses on border securitisation and the refugee and asylum-seeking community in Australia. Research and teaching interests include gender, migration, security, methods, crimes of the powerful, critical and queer studies.BrandyreceivedaPhDfromMonashUniversityin2017andanMSfrom PortlandStateUniversityin2012. Angela Dwyer is an associate professor in policing and emergency management in the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia, and the deputy director of the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies. Angela conducts research on the intersection between sexuality, gender diversity and criminal justice, and is lead editor of Queering Criminology, edited with Matthew Ball and Thomas Crofts, and published by Palgrave. Angela is the co-chair of the Division of Queer CriminologywiththeAmericanSocietyofCriminology,andthesecretaryofEquality Tasmania, an advocacy body working to change legislation to further protect LGBTIQTasmanians. Kate Fitz-Gibbon is an associate professor of criminology and director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, Australia. Kate conducts research in the fields of family viii Listofcontributors violence, femicide, criminal justice responses to family violence, and the impact of criminal law reform in Australia and internationally. Kate has advised on homicide law reform and family violence reviews in several Australian and international jurisdictions. Anita Gibbs teaches social work, sociology and criminology at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research interests span 25 years in criminal justice, mental health and social work, specialising more recently in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). She is a disability advocate working alongside caregivers and individuals to promote positive supports for those living with FASD and other neurodiversities. In 2020, she was awarded the Critic and Conscience of Society Award by the GAMA Foundation and Universities New Zealand for her work raising awareness of the issue of FASD as a hidden disability. Kirsten Gibson is a Victoria University of Wellington graduate, where she completed an MA looking at women’s access to needle exchange services. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research focuses on the experiences of women after release from prison in Aotearoa New Zealand. She became interested in post-prison experiences after supporting a friend through release from prison. Kirsten is passionate about research, as well as activism in issues around the harms of criminalisation. Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour teaches both criminology and gender studies at the UniversityofOtago,NewZealand.Herresearchareasinclude:sexworkgovernance, witharecentfocusontheexperiencesoftransandnon-binarysexworkersinAustralia andAotearoaNewZealand;mediarepresentationsofcrimeandtheimpactoftheshift tonew/digitalmedia;andpedagogicalapproachesincarceralsettings. Jan Jordan is an adjunct professor in criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where, until recently, she had been researching and teaching for 33 years. She has specialisedin rape research, authoringmany reports as well as books. A primary focus has been on listening to the voices of women victimised by rape, important in its own right as well as providing information essential for those wishing to provide victim-centred responses. Jan is currently completing two books to be published by Routledge, one focused on rape and the criminal justice system and the other examining the wider social and patriarchal contexts informing contemporary rape culture. Debbie Kilroy was first imprisoned at age 14 and spent the subsequent 20 years moving in and out of adult and children’s prisons in Queensland, Australia. In 1989, Debbie was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for drug trafficking. After her release from prison in 1992, she established Sisters Inside, which advocates for thehumanrightsofwomenandgirlsaffectedbythecriminallegalsystem.In2007, Debbie was the first person in Australia with serious convictions to be admitted by Listofcontributors ix the Supreme Court of Queensland to practise law. She is also a qualified social worker, gestalt therapist and forensic mental health practitioner. Debbie continues to lead Sisters Inside as CEO. Ti Lamusse, of English–South African and Mauritian decent, is a lecturer in Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington. Ti’s research is about what Aotearoa could look like without prisons. Ti has a long history of queer and prison activism, co-founding the queer and trans prison abolitionist organisation No Pride in Prisons. Ti is currently the national secretary of People Against Prisons Aotearoa. Ti sees scholarship as needing to be intimately tied to activist work, arguingthatyoucannotsimplyunderstand theworld, butyoualsohave to change it. - - Tracey McIntosh, MNZM, is Ngai Tuhoe, and is professor of Indigenous studies andco-headofTeW-anangaoWaipapa(SchoolofMa-oriStudiesandPacificStudies) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her recent research examines the - incarceration of Maori and Indigenous peoples, and particularly the experiences of women, in terms of poverty, inequality and social justice. Her writing includes - examination of the incarceration of Maori people, the links between impri- sonment and poverty, and the histories of confinement and marginalisation in a settler colonial state. Andrea Pa˘ros¸anu is a research fellow with the Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice, at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has a legal back- ground and holds a PhD from the University of Greifswald, Germany. Her research interests focus on restorative justice, particularly within the contexts of youth justice, family violence and elder harm, as well as alternatives to imprisonment. In New Zealand,shehasbeeninvolvedintheevaluationofprojectsontheuseofrestorative approaches in different settings. Prior to joining the Chair, she contributed to research on restorative and youth justice in several comparative projects funded by the European Union. SuziQuixleyhasbeenanactivist,academic,practitionerandconsultant,specialising in work with community-driven social justice organisations throughout Australia over the past 35 years. She met Debbie Kilroy shortly after her release from prison and hasperiodically workedwithSistersInsideeversince.Suzi facilitatedthe process that developed Sisters Inside’s values and vision, documented the organisation’s model of service, and continues to contribute, mainly through submission writing and staff development. Kate Seymour is a senior lecturer, currently in social work at Flinders University, Australia, and previously in criminology. Kate’s research focus on gender, mascu- linities and violence spans the fields of social work and criminology. She is espe- cially interested in the ways that violence is framed in the policy, prevention and

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