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Women Prisoners Regulating Prisons: Did Corston Achieve Networked, Participatory Regulation?

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT Prison regulators across scales hold potential to illuminate harms of imprisonment and influence alternatives, yet criminologists rarely engage with these mechanisms. We analyse prisoners’ participatory roles in the ‘transformative’ Corston Report (2007) and The Corston Report 10 Years On, using actor‐network‐theory to guide document analysis. Corston called for a radically different, woman‐centred approach to criminal justice, but women's voices were often peripheral, or they were constructed as ‘pathetic’. There is unrealised potential for regulatory efforts to network imprisoned women and their families with other regulators, deepening understanding of problems connected to prisons, for broader social benefit.

Source: The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice

DOI: 10.1111/hojo.12604

Authors: Gillian Buck, Philippa Tomczak

Institutions: University of Chester, University of Nottingham

Language: English

Topic: Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Gender equality, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,470