RT Book
T1 Coming back to jail: women, trauma, and criminalization
A1 Comack, Elizabeth 1952-
LA English
PP Halifax Winnipeg
PB Fernwood Publishing
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1645325229
AB "Published some two decades ago, Elizabeth Comack's Women in Trouble explored the connections between the women's abuse histories and their law violations as well as their experience of imprisonment in an aged facility. What has changed for incarcerated women in those twenty years? Are experiences of abuse continuing to have an impact on the lives of criminalized women? How do women find the experience of imprisonment in a new facility? Drawing on the stories of forty-two incarcerated women, Coming Back to Jail broadens the focus to examine the role of trauma in the women's lives. Resisting the popular move to understand trauma in psychiatric terms--as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)--the book frames trauma as "lived experience" and locates the women's lives within the context of a settler-colonial, capitalist, patriarchal society. Doing so enables a better appreciation of the social conditions that produce trauma and the problems, conflicts and dilemmas that bring women into the criminal justice net. In Coming Back to Jail, Comack shows how--despite recent moves to be more "gender responsive"--the prisoning of women is ultimately more punishing than empowering. What is more, because the sources of the women's trauma reside in the systemic processes that have contoured their lives and their communities, true healing will require changing women's social circumstances on the outside so they no longer keep coming back to jail."--
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index
CN HV6046 HV9507
SN 1773630105
SN 9781773630106
K1 Women Prisoners : Case studies : Canada
K1 Imprisonment : Case studies : Psychological aspects
K1 Post-traumatic stress disorder : Case studies
K1 Justice, Administration of : Case studies : Canada
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
K1 Imprisonment : Psychological aspects
K1 Justice, Administration of
K1 Post-traumatic stress disorder
K1 Women Prisoners : Canada
K1 Kannada : Frauenstrafvollzug : Weibliche Strafgefangene : Posttraumatisches Stresssyndrom