This book explores narratives and practices around gender and criminal justice, with a focus on women in Latin America. The chapters are written by academics, policy-making institutions, women with lived experience and activist actors in Latin America. They provide a distinctive analysis of gender and criminal justice in the region, along with the tensions between victimization and agency in womens paths of criminalization. This book looks at womens resistance and responses to States processes of gender stereotyping and punishment. Ultimately, it showcases womens collective capacity to shape the security agenda.
.- Prologue.- Introduction.- Part I Feminist perspectives on security
and criminalization.- Control, Power and Victimization: Stories of Women in
Prison.- Security, the State, and Care. A Feminist Critique.- Where is the
transness? Sex/Gender, Security, and the Idea of Danger.- Part II Challenging
gender stereotypes in criminal justice: Inter-American and national
practices.- Data Against Feminicide: Confronting Stereotypes and Silences
with Feminist Data Work.- The Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Gender-Responsive Approach to Ensuring Womens Rights in Prison: A Closer
Look at Advisory Opinion OC-29/22.- Women Resisting: Formerly Incarcerated
Women Organize to Bring Down the Bars.- Part III The effects of incarceration
on women and children.- House arrest: an analysis of the Brazilian reality.-
The gendered impacts of a parents incarceration on girls.- Women,
Motherhood, and Confinement in Argentina: Insights from Data Production and
Analysis.
Corina Giacomello is Professor of Sociology of Law at the Institute of Judicial Studies of the Autonomous University of Chiapas, Mexico. She is an academic and international consultant with expertise in gender studies, childrens rights, criminal justice and prison systems and drug policies. She has 20 years of experience in advocacy-oriented research and development of legal, judicial and public policy proposals at the national and international level.
