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Baldwin, Lucy |
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2021-02-15T11:05:13Z |
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2021-02-15T11:05:13Z |
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2021-01-23 |
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2020-12-30 |
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2023-02-22T17:04:30Z |
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2023-02-22T17:04:30Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Baldwin, L. (2021) Criminal Mothers: The persisting pains of maternal imprisonment. In: Criminal Women; Gender Matters, Co-Authored by the Criminal Women Voice, Justice and Recognition Network (CWVJR), Maggie O’Neill, Sharon Grace, Tammi Walker, Hannah King, Kate O’Brien, Alison Jobe, Fiona Measham, Lucy Baldwin, Vicky Seaman, Orla Lynch, and Katie Fraser.
Bristol University Press |
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https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/20618 |
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https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529208443.ch005 |
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http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/254424 |
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| dc.description |
This chapter was written with two criminalised mothers Mary Elwood and Cassie Brown (pseudonyms ) |
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| dc.description |
Feminist research strives to illuminate voice, especially women’s voices, facilitating their
authentic reproduction is an essential aspect to feminist research principles (Oakley 2016,
Renzetti 2013, Baldwin forthcoming 2021). Like each chapter in Carlen et al’s ‘Criminal
Women’ (1985), this chapter centres the women’s own experience and voice. Taking
motherhood as its focus and via two criminalised mothers’ narratives, the chapter examines
what occurs when the worlds of motherhood and criminal justice collide. Drawing on the
authors Doctoral researchii the chapter demonstrates how ideas, ideals and expectations of
motherhood still shape perceptions of female law breakers who are also mothers.
Furthermore, this then impacts on mothers’ own perceptions of themselves and their ability to
mother well. The chapter demonstrates the subsequent unequal, additional and enduring
impact of imprisonment on mothers themselves and on their children. Importantly although
the chapter highlights many of the harms of criminalisation and imprisonment, it is hoped it
also reminds of the uniqueness and difference, the strength and resilience in the narratives of
mothers who come into contact with the criminal justice system. Drawing additionally on
evidence from the authors’ research findings, the chapter offers important considerations in
relation to the ‘desistance journey’ of criminal mothers, calling for the application of a
matricentric feminist lens in individual and structural responses to criminalised mothers and
more broadly, for the development a feminist matricentric criminology (Baldwin 2018). |
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application/pdf |
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Bristol University Press |
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| dc.subject |
mothers post prison |
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| dc.subject |
maternal identity |
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| dc.subject |
matricentric criminology |
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| dc.subject |
maternal imprisonment |
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| dc.title |
Criminal Mothers: The persisting pains of maternal imprisonment |
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| dc.type |
Book chapter |
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