Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia
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This volume contains two Open Access Chapters.
Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia features contributions from activist scholars grappling to understand and alleviate the compound sufferings of women and LGBTIQA+ persons as they encounter Southeast Asian criminal justice systems. The collection demonstrates that it is critical that the drivers of gendered harms and the way gendered needs intersect with other inequalities are better understood and adequately reflected in law, policy and practice.
Chapter 1. Introduction to Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia; Samantha Jeffries and Andrew M. Jefferson OPEN ACCESS
- Chapter 2. Gender and Imprisonment in Contemporary Myanmar; Andrew M. Jefferson and Myanmar Research Team
- Chapter 3. Perpetrators and/or Victims? The Case of Women Facing the Death Penalty in Malaysia; Lucy Harry
- Chapter 4. Supporting Female Prisoners and their Families: The Case of Cambodia; Billy Gorter and Philip J Gover
- Chapter 5. Catching Flies: How Women are Exploited through Prison Work in Myanmar; Myanmar Research Team
- Chapter 6. Experiences of Ethnic Minority Women Imprisoned in Thailand; Prarthana Rao, Min Jee Yamada Park, and Samantha Jeffries
- Chapter 7. Older Women's Pathways to Prison in Thailand: Economic Precarity, Caregiving, and Adversity; Tristan Russell, Samantha Jeffries, and Chontit Chuenurah
- Chapter 8. Transgender Prisoners in Thailand: Gender Identity, Vulnerabilities, Lives Behind Bars, and Prison Policies; Jutathorn Pravattiyagul
- Chapter 9. Gendered Pathways to Prison: Women’s Routes to Death Row in the Philippines; Diana Therese M. Veloso
- Chapter 10. Expanding the Promise of the Bangkok Rules in Southeast Asia and Beyond; Chontit Chuenurah, Barbara Owen, and Prarthana Rao
- Chapter 11. Conclusion: Decentring Research and Practice Through Mutual Participation; Andrew M. Jefferson and Samantha Jeffries OPEN ACCESS
This exciting new collection reinvigorates prison studies and feminist criminology. Offering a sobering glimpse into the lived reality of prisons in Southeast Asia, it reminds us of the salience of gender in understanding incarceration and the urgent need for action.
The breadth of issues covered makes this contribution an invaluable resource for criminologists, social activists, jurists and policymakers working to enhance the efficacy of criminal justice policy and practice in Southeast Asia and elsewhere.
This collection provides data, analyses, theorizations and experiences of populations that much of the Western world has ignored or overlooked. Shifting criminology’s gaze toward such issues from a Southeast Asian perspective is a most welcome and much-needed adjustment.
An excellent contribution towards unpacking the meaning of participation in the social world […] each of the contributors makes an important contribution towards furthering our understanding of prisons and experiences of women and gender and sexual minorities in prisons in the Global South. In this regard, the edited volume fills an important gap in criminology literature.
Andrew M. Jefferson is a Senior Researcher at DIGNITY - Danish Institute against Torture. His work focuses on ethnographies of prisons and prison reform processes in the global south and has featured a range of collaborations with activist organizations engaged in torture prevention, human rights work, and prison reform. He co-convenes the Global Prisons Research Network. Aside from issues of prisons and comparative penality, interests include the relation between state and subject in transitional contexts, the hierarchization of human worth, and how to conceptualise human suffering under compromised circumstances. Andrew is author (with Liv Gaborit) of Human Rights in Prisons: Comparing Institutional Encounters in Kosovo, Sierra Leone and the Philippines.
Samantha Jeffries is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice/Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University. Her research focuses on marginalized social statuses, criminalization, victimisation and justice. Samantha has conducted research on LGBTIQA+ domestic violence, the sex industry, problem-solving courts, sentencing, gender and Indigeneity. In focus more recently has been the needs and experiences of domestic violence victims in the family law system and restorative justice processes. Since 2015, she has been collaborating with the Thailand Institute of Justice undertaking studies in Southeast Asia and Kenya on gendered pathways to criminalization, women's experiences of imprisonment, as well as re-integration and human rights. She has co-authored a book on domestic violence, published articles in Criminology and the British Journal of Criminology and conducted training on the Bangkok Rules with prison personnel in Thailand, Kenya and Indonesia for the Thailand Institute of Justice and UNODC.