Young Women's Carceral Geographies: Abandonment, Trouble and Mobility

This book explores the challenges faced by young women within the criminal justice system, highlighting the impact of secure care, prison, and closed psychiatric facilities on their lives. It challenges and re-develops our understanding of extreme mobility and showcases how this can lead to the abandonment of a group of young people who live on the margins of social and legal norms. Merging theoretical and empirical findings, it offers essential reading for practitioners and researchers interested in gender, age, and confinement.

Format: Hardback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 11 August 2021
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

Young women are a group that is frequently overlooked in feminist scholarship, despite the fact that they face unique challenges within the criminal justice system. This book delves into the complexities of power, punishment, and abandonment, with a specific focus on the experiences of young women. By examining the challenges they face within the criminal justice system and tracing their journeys in, out, and beyond confinement, the book seeks to shed light on the particular difficulties they encounter.

Through ethnographic insights from multiple sites of incarceration, including secure care, prison, and closed psychiatric facilities, the study explores how these spaces impact the lives of young women. It goes beyond individual carceral spaces by examining the broader context of young women's journeys through different types of institutional spaces and beyond. The exploration of these journeys challenges and re-develops our understanding of extreme mobility, highlighting how it can lead to the abandonment of a group of young people who live on the margins of social and legal norms.

Merging theoretical and empirical findings, the book demonstrates how age and gender play a significant role in discourses on crime and justice. It highlights the need to look beyond institutions to understand confinement in our age of prison crisis, austerity, and marginalization. By curating findings from across human geography and criminology, the book fills an important gap in the literature, offering essential reading for practitioners and researchers interested in gender, age, and confinement.

Weight: 506g
Dimension: 160 x 240 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781839090509