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View article: Locked Away While Innocent: Women, Human Rights, and Pre-Trial Detention
Locked Away While Innocent: Women, Human Rights, and Pre-Trial Detention Open
Pre-trial detention is intended to be a measure of last resort, yet it is excessively applied across jurisdictions worldwide. This paper examines its use, with particular emphasis on its application to women and its incompatibility with in…
View article: Working ‘from the heart’ under challenging circumstances: Thailand's probation workers discuss electronically monitored parole for women
Working ‘from the heart’ under challenging circumstances: Thailand's probation workers discuss electronically monitored parole for women Open
This paper presents findings from an exploratory study undertaken with Department of Probation personnel in Thailand. The goal was to examine staff perspectives, experiences and practices regarding the support of women (formerly imprisoned…
View article: “A Kiss Delivered as a Punch”: Coercively Controlling Tactics in Australian Women’s Same-Gender Intimate Relationships
“A Kiss Delivered as a Punch”: Coercively Controlling Tactics in Australian Women’s Same-Gender Intimate Relationships Open
In 2007, Evan Stark consolidated decades of feminist scholarship and advocacy on intimate partner violence (IPV) into a framework he coined “coercive control” (Stark 2007). Stark’s model was initially heteronormative. He later contended th…
View article: Tomboys’ Pathways to Prison in Thailand: Insubordination, Support, Sacrifice, and Suffering
Tomboys’ Pathways to Prison in Thailand: Insubordination, Support, Sacrifice, and Suffering Open
This paper presents findings from a feminist pathways study undertaken with imprisoned Tomboys, a gender sexual minority group in Thailand. Utilizing life-history interviews, we mapped Tomboys’ journeys into prison. Results showed two path…
View article: A life on hold: women, drugs, and electronically monitored parole in Thailand
A life on hold: women, drugs, and electronically monitored parole in Thailand Open
The United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-Custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules) advocate for the increased use of non-custodial measures alongside women-wise criminal justice programs, polic…
View article: Domestic and Family Violence and Private Family Report Writing Practice in the Australian Family Law System: A Study
Domestic and Family Violence and Private Family Report Writing Practice in the Australian Family Law System: A Study Open
In Australia, family reports are an influential expert assessment of a family usually undertaken in contentious family law parenting matters by social workers or psychologists, known as family report writers. This article presents findings…
View article: Mapping Women’s and Men’s Pathways into Thailand’s Prisons for Homicide and Sex Offences: Utilising a Feminist Pathways Approach
Mapping Women’s and Men’s Pathways into Thailand’s Prisons for Homicide and Sex Offences: Utilising a Feminist Pathways Approach Open
In feminist criminology, there is a growing body of research exploring pathways to prison, but few studies have specifically sought to map women’s journeys into the criminal justice system for crimes of physical violence and sex offending.…
View article: Introduction to Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia
Introduction to Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia Open
In this introductory chapter, we discuss the impetus for this edited book. We introduce activist, critical and feminist criminological theorizing and research on gender, intersectionality, criminalization, and carceral experiences. The sce…
View article: Older Women’s Pathways to Prison in Thailand: Economic Precarity, Caregiving, and Adversity
Older Women’s Pathways to Prison in Thailand: Economic Precarity, Caregiving, and Adversity Open
In feminist criminology, there is a growing body of research exploring gendered pathways into prison. However, to date, this scholarship has not considered how age and gender may intersect to impact women’s criminalization experiences. In …
View article: Prelims
Prelims Open
Citation (2022), "Prelims", Jefferson, A.M. and Jeffries, S. (Ed.) Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia (Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. i-xviii. https:…
View article: Conclusion: Decentering Research and Practice Through Mutual Participation
Conclusion: Decentering Research and Practice Through Mutual Participation Open
The chapters in this book show that it is possible to conduct studies on the intersections between gender, criminalization, imprisonment, and human rights in Southeast Asia. In this conclusion, we draw out the implications of this emerging…
View article: Experiences of Ethnic Minority Women Imprisoned in Thailand
Experiences of Ethnic Minority Women Imprisoned in Thailand Open
To date, intersectional feminist criminological enquiry concerned with exploring junctions of gender and ethnicity amongst incarcerated women, has mainly come from studies undertaken in western nations. In this chapter, we present findings…
View article: Extending borders of knowledge: gendered pathways to prison in Thailand for international cross border drug trafficking
Extending borders of knowledge: gendered pathways to prison in Thailand for international cross border drug trafficking Open
Few researchers have concerned themselves with qualitative gender-comparative studies of women's and men's prison trajectories - particularly appraisals relating to international cross border drug trafficking (ICBDT). Using life history in…
View article: Adult Restorative Justice and Gendered Violence: Practitioner and Service Provider Viewpoints from Queensland, Australia
Adult Restorative Justice and Gendered Violence: Practitioner and Service Provider Viewpoints from Queensland, Australia Open
This paper presents findings from a study exploring the experiences and viewpoints of conventional criminal justice actors, social and legal service providers, and restorative justice (RJ) conference facilitators/convenors regarding the us…
View article: Expectations and Experiences of Women Imprisoned for Drug Offending and Returning to Communities in Thailand: Understanding Women’s Pathways Into, Through, and Post-Imprisonment
Expectations and Experiences of Women Imprisoned for Drug Offending and Returning to Communities in Thailand: Understanding Women’s Pathways Into, Through, and Post-Imprisonment Open
Thailand places a high priority on the gender-specific contexts out of which offending arises and the differential needs of women in the criminal justice system. Despite this, Thailand has the highest female incarceration rate in South Eas…
View article: Media discourses of intimate partner violence in Queensland newspapers
Media discourses of intimate partner violence in Queensland newspapers Open
Media discourse has a profound effect on public opinions. Prior research, the majority of which has been conducted internationally, shows that print media constructions of intimate partner violence (IPV) operate within a patriarchal framew…
View article: “It’s Like Standing on a Beach, Holding Your Children’s Hands, and Having a Tsunami Just Coming Towards You”: Intimate Partner Violence and “Expert” Assessments in Australian Family Law
“It’s Like Standing on a Beach, Holding Your Children’s Hands, and Having a Tsunami Just Coming Towards You”: Intimate Partner Violence and “Expert” Assessments in Australian Family Law Open
The ways in which postseparation parenting disputes are managed has undergone significant change in Australia since the Family Law Act (Cth) was first enacted in 1975. The best interests of children have always been paramount in children’s…
View article: An Analysis of Thai Women's Roles and Involvement in Cross-Border International Drug Trafficking
An Analysis of Thai Women's Roles and Involvement in Cross-Border International Drug Trafficking Open
There has already been a large amount of Western research done exploring women's pathways to prison, but this paper will focus solely on women from Southeast Asia, and more specifically, Thai women. Lives of convicted women are usually cha…
View article: Gendered Pathways to Prison in Thailand for Drug Offending? Exploring Women’s and Men’s Narratives of Offending and Criminalization
Gendered Pathways to Prison in Thailand for Drug Offending? Exploring Women’s and Men’s Narratives of Offending and Criminalization Open
In criminology, there is a growing body of research exploring pathways into prison. However, few researchers have concerned themselves with qualitative gender-comparative studies of women’s and men’s journeys to offending and criminalizati…
View article: Good evidence, safe outcomes in parenting matters involving domestic violence? Understanding family report writing practice from the perspective of professionals working in the Family Law system
Good evidence, safe outcomes in parenting matters involving domestic violence? Understanding family report writing practice from the perspective of professionals working in the Family Law system Open
Cases involving families where there are allegations of domestic violence constitute a significant part of family court caseloads in Australia.1 Research undertaken by the Australian Institute of Family Studies showed that allegations of s…
View article: In the Best Interests of the Abuser: Coercive Control, Child Custody Proceedings and the “Expert” Assessments That Guide Judicial Determinations
In the Best Interests of the Abuser: Coercive Control, Child Custody Proceedings and the “Expert” Assessments That Guide Judicial Determinations Open
This paper outlines why domestic violence (or more specifically, coercive control) should be crucial to child custody proceedings. What is known about parenting in the context of coercively controlling violence, and what the legislation di…
View article: Family reports and family violence in Australian family law proceedings: What do we know?
Family reports and family violence in Australian family law proceedings: What do we know? Open
Family reports are critical documents in family parenting cases. They are often the only social science information available to the judge, the lawyers and the parties. They are influential in judicial decision-making and out-of-court nego…
View article: Protecting Australia's Children: A Cross-Jurisdictional Review of Domestic Violence Protection Order Legislation
Protecting Australia's Children: A Cross-Jurisdictional Review of Domestic Violence Protection Order Legislation Open
Increasingly, domestic violence is being treated as a child protection issue, and children affected by domestic violence are recognised as experiencing a form of child abuse. Domestic violence protection order legislation as a key legal re…
View article: Recovering from Romantic Terrorism
Recovering from Romantic Terrorism Open
This fourth and final chapter explores the journey to recovery from romantic terrorism, the ongoing impact and strategies for regaining identity and subjectivity. The authors suggest that one of the key strategies for raising awareness in …
View article: Tools and Tactics
Tools and Tactics Open
Coercive control includes, but goes beyond, an examination of physical violence by considering a plethora of on-going non-physical methods intentionally employed by perpetrators of romantic terrorism to maintain power and control over thei…
View article: Romantic Terrorism
Romantic Terrorism Open
The argument put forward in this book is that terrorists operate in Australia every day. Innocent women are tortured, held captive and/or killed every week in this country and worldwide by people who rely on fear and intimidation to contro…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
This chapter introduces the term “romantic terrorism” and explains how it relates to domestic violence. It details the methodology of collaborative auto-ethnography used by the authors in analysing their lived experiences of domestic viole…