Women Prisoners and the Drive for Desistance: Capital and Responsibilization as a Barrier to Change
Women Prisoners and the Drive for Desistance: Capital and Responsibilization as a Barrier to Change
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女性囚犯和反抗的动力：资本和责任作为变革的障碍
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10.1080/08974454.2016.1217814
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2017
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E. Hart
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E. Hart
关于罪犯如何停止犯罪以及在监禁判决后重新安置和重新进入社会的研究数量很大，而且数量在不断增加。就像犯罪学研究中经常出现的情况一样，妇女在这些调查领域的代表性不足。这项研究旨在调查女性在服刑的最后3个月是如何计划和准备释放她们的。利用英国一所封闭式女子监狱13个月期间对女性囚犯和监狱工作人员进行的定性访谈产生的数据，本文将辩称，女性囚犯有动机和愿望在释放后停止犯罪，但她们计划释放的努力受到贯穿整个机构的责任话语的阻碍，以及所有形式的资本(社会、文化、经济和象征性资本)的严重缺乏。这不仅导致许多妇女被释放，几乎没有适当的支持来帮助她们实现未来无犯罪生活的目标，而且还突显了以男性为中心的监狱系统的问题。
There is a significant and growing volume of research into the way in which offenders desist from crime and their resettlement and reentry into society following a custodial sentence. As is too often the case in criminological research, women are underrepresented in these areas of investigation. This research aimed to investigate how women in the last 3 months of a prison sentence plan and prepare for their release. Using data generated from qualitative interviews with women prisoners and prison staff over a 13-month period in a closed women’s prison in England, this paper will argue that women prisoners have motivation and desire to desist from crime post-release, but their attempts to plan for release are hindered by a responsibilization discourse that runs throughout the institution and by a severe lack in all forms of capital (social, cultural, economic, and symbolic). This not only results in many women being released with little support in place to help them achieve their aims of a crime-free life in the future but also highlights the problems with a prison system based on male-centered knowledge.