Gender, ‘Race’, and the Criminal Justice Process

Familiarity and strangeness: Seeing everyday practices of punishment and resistance in Holloway Prison

“… 3 Particularly for minoritised women, whose treatment by criminal justice representatives has been found to be more aggressive and punitive (Chigwada-Bailey, 2003; Devlin, 1998; Farrant, 2009; Jollieffe and Haque, 2017). An intersectional analysis acknowledges how ‘different forms of oppression can lead to an amplification of discrimination at each stage of the criminal justice system’ (Farrant, 2009).…”

“… 3 Particularly for minoritised women, whose treatment by criminal justice representatives has been found to be more aggressive and punitive (Chigwada-Bailey, 2003; Devlin, 1998; Farrant, 2009; Jollieffe and Haque, 2017). An intersectional analysis acknowledges how ‘different forms of oppression can lead to an amplification of discrimination at each stage of the criminal justice system’ (Farrant, 2009). Race is difficult to consider here, but we recognise that minority ethnic women, particularly black women, are overrepresented in the criminal justice system, reproducing entangled oppressions experienced in society, exacerbated by austerity policies (Bassel and Emejulu, 2017).…”