Concerns regarding the morality and effectiveness of women’s prisons are reflected in the statistics revealing 45% reoffend within a year of being released from prison. Alternatives that help reduce reoffending and keep women safe from further trauma must be a priority.
Funding is very precarious for the existing network of women’s centres. It is also sporadic…
by Dr Gemma Ahearne
‘Women empowering women’ screams the headline. An alternative would be ‘Our Sisters’ Keepers’ given that organizations are competing for funding in order to punish women.
We cannot punish women in the spaces we are trying to heal them. Services must be trauma-led by qualified professionals. Painting something pink and calling it empowerment is…
An Introduction
Women’s centres came came into place after The Corston Report in 2007 which made 43 recommendations for gendered criminal justice reform in order to create a more women-centred and holistic approach to supporting women affected by the criminal justice system. Many such centres were set up with little oversight, all claimed to be gender…
We are Invisible is a report that focuses on women from BAME backgrounds within the criminal justice system and their experiences with domestic abuse. The report contains the results of survey questions from over 100 women and includes 3 qualitative case study interviews with women who were comfortable to discuss their experiences in more detail.
The first…
On the 30th June 2020, the HM Chief Inspector of Prisons published a report after visiting prisons holding women. It focused on the conditions in two prisons, HMP Send and HMP and YOI Downview, during the coronavirus pandemic.
Whilst there were some positives, conditions in these establishment were still unacceptable. For example, prisoners at Send were only given one hour…
Our report documents the harrowing experiences of minoritized women in the criminal justice system. We aim to generate a nation-wide conversation about the urgency of widespread reform. The discrimination that women suffer, particularly those who are BAME, happens at various stages of their journey as defendants. We cannot focus only on the police, only on…
“WE ARE INVISIBLE”: The Experiences of Women in The Criminal Justice System:
The Black Lives Matter campaign in the USA and UK has brought the abominable treatment of black men in the criminal justice system into focus. The View has conducted a survey in order to look at the injustices faced by minoritized women in contact…
In recent years, the ‘refugee crisis’, the Brexit vote, the Windrush scandal, the ‘hostile environment’, conditions in immigration detention centres, and the Covid-19 pandemic have focused attention on the government’s migration policies. It’s common to question the justice of this or that policy, but there remains a widespread assumption that ultimately countries should be free…
Miss Triggs’ situation is familiar to many of us: inaudible, unable to make any impact on those around. When you speak what you say is not valued, while the very same thing said by someone else is heard. Sometimes this is individual – Miss Triggs in particular just does not command her audience. Sometimes it…
Figure 1: Hypatia, a Hellenistic Neoplatonist philosopher.
If you ask someone to name some famous philosophers, they will probably give you a list of men: Plato, Descartes, Locke, Kant, Nietzsche, and so on. But there are lots of women doing (great!) philosophy, and there always have been.
In recent years, there have been many moves to improve the…