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Women, Drugs and Custody
Author Margaret Malloch
Pages
166
Format
Paperback
Published
30/06/2001
ISBN-10
1872870910
ISBN-13
9781872870915
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Women, Drugs and Custody
The Experiences of Women Drug Users in Prison
~ Margaret Malloch
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The approach of HM Prison Service for England and Wales and the Scottish Prison Service to drug users in prison, focusing on the experiences of women drug users in particular - and looking at items such as:
- policies and guidelines, their implementation and effect
- the experiences of women drug users in prison in their own words
- the views of prison staff who need to 'care' for drug users whilst concentrating on security and control
- tensions inherent in an increasing prison population with a significant 'drug user' element
- the priorities and emphasis of current practice
- the 'medicalising', 'pathologising' and 'criminalizing' of women drug users, who are seen as 'sick', 'deviant', 'depraved' and 'degraded'
- the impact of prison regimes on drug users - and vice-versa
- the discretionary implementation of policies the stereotyping of drug users
- how the social control of women extends into the penal arena.
A welcome addition to the expanding literature on drugs and offenders, the book looks at the three separate strands indicated by its title - 'Women', 'Drugs' and 'Custody' - often with their conflicting aims and agendas. It joins a number of other innovative Waterside Press titles touching upon like issues - to show how drugs present doubly complex problems in an environment where security and control take priority.
Reviews
'This book gave me - an average person - an insight into the drugs scene that left a lasting impression of people who have priorities and problems I know little about . . . Especially illuminating are the words of the women themselves': Wendy Hillary, The Magistrate
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