The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities: Shut Out, Shut In

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Julie-Anne Toohey (University of Adelaide, Australia)

The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities

Shut Out, Shut In

Julie-Anne Toohey (University of Adelaide, Australia)

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Routledge
25 September 2023

Psychological theory & schools of thought; Social, group or collective psychology; Personal & public health; Medical sociology; Psychotherapy

Series: Feminist Criminology

The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities explores the lived experience of cognitively disabled women incarcerated in Australia. It draws upon in-depth interviews with Indigenous and non-Indigenous women, as well as interviews conducted with prison practitioners – psychologists, counsellors, and Aboriginal Liaison Officers.

Using a theoretical framework of social exclusion, the book charts the complex intersection between cognitively disabled women and the Criminal Justice System, and how this connection works to foster and maintain a state of social exclusion prior to incarceration, and equally, within the prison setting. The book also provides a practical template for other researchers to use when investigating the aligned fields of the Criminal Justice System and incarceration, women offenders, cognitive disability, and social exclusion. By placing the voices of the incarcerated women with cognitive disabilities ‘front and centre’, a new and innovative approach to social exclusion emerges. The book moves beyond the 'telling of sad stories' to examine the social and political climate that permits disadvantage, inequality, and injustice to flourish.

This book will be of great interest to academics and students in criminology, criminal justice, disability studies, women’s and gender studies, and penology. In exploring theory in a practical way, it will also be of use to those involved in the health sector, community services, disability support agencies, disability advocates, prisoner advocacy, women’s studies and women’s advocacy, and human rights activism.

By: Julie-Anne Toohey (University of Adelaide Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032125763
ISBN 10: 1032125764
Series: Feminist Criminology
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface: The face of social exclusion Ch.1: Introduction Ch.2: Forecasting Social Exclusion: Cognitive disability and the Criminal Justice System Ch.3: Social Exclusion in context: Determining causes, evaluating consequences Ch.4: Pathways to prison, pathways to social exclusion Ch.5: Off to prison – you know the way… Ch. 6: Opposing paradigms: cognitive disability and women’s prisons Ch.7: Revealing the face of social exclusion

Julie-Anne Toohey is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. Key areas of research include the importance of maintaining connections between incarcerated parents and their children, and the lived experiences of incarcerated women with cognitive disabilities. Her research has taken place in a number of prisons throughout Australia, and privileges the voices of incarcerated people. Julie-Anne has taught Criminology at the University of Tasmania, the University of South Australia, and Flinders University, and has been part of research teams associated with the Criminology Research Unit at the University of Tasmania and the Crime and Policy Research Unit at Flinders University. She completed her PhD in Criminology through the University of Adelaide.

Reviews for The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities: Shut Out, Shut In

This fascinating book provides vital insights into the terrible and exclusionary world of the criminal justice-cognitive disability nexus, and the people at its centre. Providing a platform for hiterto voiceless women, Julie-Anne Toohey challenges us to radically change or abolish institutions that mostly serve to deepen the pain, suffering and abuse of the vulnerable. Prison research of this nature is rare. Yet, amongst the sadness and despair is resilience and hope, and this, too, is a crucial message of this powerful book. Rob White Distinguished Professor of Criminology, University of Tasmania, Australia