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Too Few to Matter
Institutional Inertia in the Prisoning of Women in Canada and Québec
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
About this book
In 2010, Correctional Service Canada closed two decrepit prisons designated for men. Hoping to reduce prison overcrowding, the Québec government rented one of them—the Leclerc prison—and transferred approximately 250 male prisoners serving a provincial sentence. One year later, Québec closed its main provincial prison designated for women, and swiftly transferred the women to the Leclerc prison where men were housed. At Leclerc, women endured dehumanizing conditions condemned by scholars, advocacy groups, and the media as violations of basic human rights. Challenging living conditions enduring at the Leclerc prison suggest that women’s imprisonment is resisting significant change despite studies and governmental inquiries since the middle of the 19th century having documented the dire situation, and the specific needs of imprisoned women in Canada. This book proposes a critical rereading of women’s penal history in Canada and argues that policies and practices regarding women’s prisoning are path dependent and tend to follow a locked-in trajectory.
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Contributor:
Joane Martel est professeure retraitée de criminologie à l’Université Laval. Ses intérêts de recherche portent sur l’étude critique de la justice pénale et de l’univers carcéral. Elle a publié des ouvrages et des articles sur le suicide assisté, le remords, le populisme pénal, la construction des rapports prédécisionnels et la cyberdépendance. Elle a aussi publié plusieurs articles sur le contrôle institutionnel des savoirs sur la prison, le vieillissement, le temps et l’espace en isolement cellulaire, l’espoir, l’éthique des études de la prison, les trajectoires et les identités carcérales des femmes autochtones ainsi que la gestion correctionnelle du «?risque autochtone?».
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Front Matter
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Table of contents
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Foreword
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Introduction
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How to Think Women’s Prisoning
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What Matters in Women’s Prisoning
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The Tenacity of Federal Prisons Designated for Women
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The Tenacity of Prisons Designated for Women in Québec
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Imagining a Scenario Without Prisons
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References
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Glossary
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eBook published on:
January 11, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9782766300921
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Keywords for this book
Women’s Prisoning; Path Dependence; Criminology; Federal Prisons; Ontario’s Kingston Penitentiary; Proto-Prisons; Prison for Women; Creating Choices Correctional Philosophy; Maison Tanguay; Leclerc Prison; Prison Conditions
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
