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Social Science Women's Studies

Criminalized Mothers, Criminalizing Mothering

edited by Joanne Minaker & Bryan Hogeveen

Publisher
Demeter Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2015
Category
Women's Studies
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781926452791
    Publish Date
    Feb 2015
    List Price
    $17.99

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Description

As the fastest growing prison population worldwide, more and more women are living in cages and most of them are mothers. This alarm- ing trend has huge ramifications for women, children and communities across the globe. Empathy for mothers behind bars and concern for criminalized mothers in the community is in short supply. Mothers are criminalized for their vulnerabilities and for making unpopular but difficult choices under material and ideological conditions not of their own choosing. Criminalized Mothers, Criminalizing Mothering shines a spot- light on mothers who are, by law or social regulation, criminalized and examines their troubles and triumphs. This book offers a critical and compassionate lens on social (in)justice, mass incarceration, and collective miseries women experience (i.e., economic inequality, gendered violence, devalued care work, lone-parenting etc.). This book is also about mothers’ encounters with systems of control, confinement, and criminalization, but also their experiences of care.

About the authors

Joanne Minaker is associate dean and associate professor of sociology at MacEwan Unviersity.

Joanne Minaker's profile page

Bryan Hogeveen's profile page