This volume provides 11 essays by criminology, criminal justice, and other scholars and activists from Asia, Europe, Australia, and the US, who examine the experiences of cisgender women, transgender people, and other gender and sexual minorities in the criminal justice systems in Southeast Asia in terms of gendered violation, victimization, and vulnerability. They consider historical and contemporary debates about the position and situation of women and LGBTQIA+ people in prison in Myanmar; women facing the death penalty in Malaysia for drug trafficking; supporting female prisoners and their families in Cambodia through the work of the non-governmental organization This Life Cambodia and the This Life in Family program; how women are exploited through prison work in Myanmar; the experiences of ethnic minority women imprisoned in Thailand; older women's narratives of their journeys to prison in Thailand; transgender prisoners in Thailand; the experiences and pathways to prison of women on death row in the Philippines; the implementation of the Bangkok Rules in Southeast Asia to provide a women-centered approach to human rights in correctional environments; and implications of the research. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This volume contains two Open Access Chapters.
This volume features contributions from activist scholars grappling to understand and alleviate the compound sufferings of women and LGBTIQA+ persons as they encounter criminal justice systems in Southeast Asia.
This volume contains two Open Access Chapters.
Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia features contributions from activist scholars grappling to understand and alleviate the compound sufferings of women and LGBTIQA+ persons as they encounter Southeast Asian criminal justice systems. The collection demonstrates that it is critical that the drivers of gendered harms and the way gendered needs intersect with other inequalities are better understood and adequately reflected in law, policy and practice.
This volume contains two Open Access Chapters. Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia features contributions from activist scholars grappling to understand and alleviate the compound sufferings of women and LGBTIQA+ persons as they encounter Southeast Asian criminal justice systems. The collection demonstrates that it is critical that the drivers of gendered harms and the way gendered needs intersect with other inequalities are better understood and adequately reflected in law, policy and practice.
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This exciting new collection reinvigorates prison studies and feminist criminology. Offering a sobering glimpse into the lived reality of prisons in Southeast Asia, it reminds us of the salience of gender in understanding incarceration and the urgent need for action. -- Mary Bosworth, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford The breadth of issues covered makes this contribution an invaluable resource for criminologists, social activists, jurists and policymakers working to enhance the efficacy of criminal justice policy and practice in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. -- Juan Marcellus Tauri, University of Waikato and Centre for Global Indigeneity This collection provides data, analyses, theorizations and experiences of populations that much of the Western world has ignored or overlooked. Shifting criminologys gaze toward such issues from a Southeast Asian perspective is a most welcome and much-needed adjustment. -- Deborah H. Drake, Department of Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University An excellent contribution towards unpacking the meaning of participation in the social world [ ] each of the contributors makes an important contribution towards furthering our understanding of prisons and experiences of women and gender and sexual minorities in prisons in the Global South. In this regard, the edited volume fills an important gap in criminology literature. -- Rimple Mehta [ MEHTA, R. (2024). Book Review: Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia (Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology) by JEFFERSON, A.M. AND JEFFRIES, S. Social & Legal Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639241272981]
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia |
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Chapter 2 Gender and Imprisonment in Contemporary Myanmar |
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Chapter 3 Perpetrators and/or Victims? The Case of Women Facing the Death Penalty in Malaysia |
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Chapter 4 Supporting Female Prisoners and Their Families: The Case of Cambodia |
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Chapter 5 Catching Flies: How Women are Exploited Through Prison Work in Myanmar |
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Chapter 6 Experiences of Ethnic Minority Women Imprisoned in Thailand |
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Chapter 7 Older Women's Pathways to Prison in Thailand: Economic Precarity, Caregiving, and Adversity |
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Chapter 8 Transgender Prisoners in Thailand: Gender Identity, Vulnerabilities, Lives Behind Bars, and Prison Policies |
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Chapter 9 Gendered Pathways to Prison: Women's Routes to Death Row in the Philippines |
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Chapter 10 Expanding the Promise of the Bangkok Rules in Southeast Asia and Beyond |
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Chapter 11 Conclusion: Decentering Research and Practice Through Mutual Participation |
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Andrew M. Jefferson is a Senior Researcher at DIGNITY - Danish Institute against Torture. His work focuses on ethnographies of prisons and prison reform processes in the global south and has featured a range of collaborations with activist organizations engaged in torture prevention, human rights work, and prison reform. He co-convenes the Global Prisons Research Network. Aside from issues of prisons and comparative penality, interests include the relation between state and subject in transitional contexts, the hierarchization of human worth, and how to conceptualise human suffering under compromised circumstances. Andrew is author (with Liv Gaborit) of Human Rights in Prisons: Comparing Institutional Encounters in Kosovo, Sierra Leone and the Philippines.
Samantha Jeffries is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice/Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University. Her research focuses on marginalized social statuses, criminalization, victimisation and justice. Samantha has conducted research on LGBTIQA+ domestic violence, the sex industry, problem-solving courts, sentencing, gender and Indigeneity. In focus more recently has been the needs and experiences of domestic violence victims in the family law system and restorative justice processes. Since 2015, she has been collaborating with the Thailand Institute of Justice undertaking studies in Southeast Asia and Kenya on gendered pathways to criminalization, women's experiences of imprisonment, as well as re-integration and human rights. She has co-authored a book on domestic violence, published articles in Criminology and the British Journal of Criminology and conducted training on the Bangkok Rules with prison personnel in Thailand, Kenya and Indonesia for the Thailand Institute of Justice and UNODC.
