Women, Stigma, and Desistance From Crime - Precarious Identities in the Transition to Adulthood

Building on a range of interviews with young adult women who were offenders in their youth, this book analyses their vivid personal accounts of stigma, motherhood, addiction and examines the gendered transition from youth criminality into adulthood.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1Youth, inequality and stigma 2 Precarious transitions: excluded and criminalised in an era of austerity 3 Stigmatisation and devaluation beyond the penal sphere 4 Maternal identities, stigma and desistance from crime 5 The legacy of education and welfare intervention 6 Making sense of penal intervention 7 Conclusion

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Gilly Sharpe is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gilly (University of Sheffield Sharpe, Sharpe Gilly
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032564289
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3256428-9
• Seiten: 204
• Serie: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Legal aspects of criminology, Gender studies, gender groups, Criminology: legal aspects, Probation services, Juvenile Criminal Law