Overview
- Draws on research grounded in author’s experience of policymaking at Westminster and Whitehall
- Focuses on women’s penal policy and identifies challenges created by the social construction of the “ideal woman”
- Provides practical methods for developing strategies to influencing politicians, the media and public
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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Book Title: Media, Politics and Penal Reform
Book Subtitle: Influencing Women's Punishment
Authors: Gemma Birkett
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58509-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58508-0Published: 12 July 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58509-7Published: 04 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 205
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Media Research, Crime and the Media, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice