Searching for the State: Who Governs Prisoners' Reproductive Rights?

Los factores de reinserción en el tratamiento de drogodependencias con mujeres penadas en España

“…This finding shows the lack of a gender-based perspective in prison activities and treatments, which are designed primarily based on the characteristics of the male population due to the low presence of women and lack of resources in a primarily masculinized environment (Almeda, 2017;Burgos-Jiménez et al, 2023;Juliano, 2009;Lorenzo et al, 2022;Roth, 2004). Prisons lack resources specific to women prisoners with drug dependency who recognize and seek to satisfy their diverse vulnerabilities, which are often different from those of the masculine population.…”

“…The low presence of women in prison environments and the economic implications of this minority status, among other issues, mean that prisons provide fewer programs and resources specific to treatment and intervention for the population of women. This context means that women participate in actions, spaces, and environments designed for men, a situation that has repercussions for the quality and availability of support provided and fails to recognize and attend to women' s specific needs (Juliano, 2009;Roth, 2004). These inequalities also occur in treatment for drug dependency.…”

“I'm Just Not Good in Relationships“

“…Feminist scholars have illustrated the importance of focusing on state processes-rather than individual characteristics of women-in our work on gender and punishment. This work argues that many studies on women, criminalization, and punishment leave state power and its various manifestations unexamined (Roth, 2004;Sudbury, 2005). Sudbury (2005), for example, states that using victimization or abuse narratives to understand why women come into conflict with the law without contextualizing these experiences within a larger socioeconomic framework "obscures the broader social disorder signified by mass incarceration, and it sidesteps the question of why the state responds to abused women with punishment" (p. xv).…”

“…Decentralization and partnerships with private companies and nonprofits have led to a proliferation of actors charged with carrying out a state agenda. These partnerships have resulted in the hybridization of the public-private space (Rose, 1996), which renders state power opaque (Roth, 2004). Psychological discourses and therapeutic practices are often sites through which regulatory processes are dispersed.…”

“…Psychological discourses and therapeutic practices are often sites through which regulatory processes are dispersed. The "search for the state" (Roth, 2004) is more challenging when processes are embedded within the language of healing and support. Casting our gaze onto the complex and often obfuscated mechanisms of regulatory strategies may help us better anticipate, confront, and challenge practices that transform feminist discourses into "ruling practices" (Smith, 1987).…”