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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Comack, Elizabeth, 1952-     Subjects     Women prisoners -- Canada -- Case studies.     Imprisonment -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.     Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Case studies.     Justice, Administration of -- Canada -- Case studies.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Comack, Elizabeth, 1952-       by title:      Coming back to jail ...       by call number:      365.6082 C728c     Search the Web     Comack, Elizabeth, 1952-     Women prisoners -- Canada -- Case studies.     Imprisonment -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.     Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Case studies.     Justice, Administration of -- Canada -- Case studies.       MARC Display

Coming back to jail : women, trauma, and criminalization / Elizabeth Comack. by Comack, Elizabeth, 1952- Fernwood Publishing, 2018. Call #: 365.6082 C728c Subjects Women prisoners -- Canada -- Case studies.   Imprisonment -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.   Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Case studies.   Justice, Administration of -- Canada -- Case studies. ISBN:  9781773630106 (pbk.) Description:  x, 262 p. ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index. Contents:  Women in trouble -- Understanding trauma -- Colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and trauma -- The lived experience of trauma -- Involvement with the criminal justice system -- The prisoning of women -- Making change. Summary:  Published some two decades ago, Elizabeth Comack's Women in Trouble explored the connections between the women's abuse histories and their law violations as well as their experience of imprisonment in an aged facility. What has changed for incarcerated women in those twenty years? Are experiences of abuse continuing to have an impact on the lives of criminalized women? How do women find the experience of imprisonment in a new facility? Drawing on the stories of forty-two incarcerated women, Coming Back to Jail broadens the focus to examine the role of trauma in the women's lives. Resisting the popular move to understand trauma in psychiatric terms--as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)--the book frames trauma as "lived experience" and locates the women's lives within the context of a settler-colonial, capitalist, patriarchal society. Doing so enables a better appreciation of the social conditions that produce trauma and the problems, conflicts and dilemmas that bring women into the criminal justice net. In Coming Back to Jail, Comack shows how--despite recent moves to be more "gender responsive"--the prisoning of women is ultimately more punishing than empowering. What is more, because the sources of the women's trauma reside in the systemic processes that have contoured their lives and their communities, true healing will require changing women's social circumstances on the outside so they no longer keep coming back to jail. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 365.6082 C728c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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