Resisting Carceral Violence Women's Imprisonment and the Politics of Abolition /

• Main Authors: Carlton, Bree (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Russell, Emma K. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Critical criminology.; Corrections.; Punishment.; Criminology.; Feminist theory.; Critical Criminology.; Prison and Punishment.; Criminological Theory.; Feminism.

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 work...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: Carceral Violence and Official Responses
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Resisting Carceral Violence from the Inside Out
• 3. Official Responses to Carceral Violence and the Limits of Reform
• Part 2: Anti-Carceral Geographies of Resistance
• 4. Women Against Prison: Anti-Carceral Feminist Critiques of Prison
• 5. The Fairlea Wring Outs: Confronting the Prison Wall
• 6. The 'Save Fairlea' Vigil: Abolitionist Imaginings and Unexpected Outcomes
• Part 3: Consolidation and Expansion
• 7. The Privatisation Era
• 8. Conclusion. .