Overview

This book explores narratives and practices around gender and criminal justice, with a focus on women in Latin America. The chapters are written by academics, policy-making institutions, women with lived experience and activist actors in Latin America. They provide a distinctive analysis of gender and criminal justice in the region, along with the tensions between victimization and agency in women’s paths of criminalization. This book looks at women’s resistance and responses to States’ processes of gender stereotyping and punishment. Ultimately, it showcases women’s collective capacity to shape the security agenda.  

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Author:   Corina Giacomello
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783032108821

ISBN 10:   3032108829
Pages:   249
Publication Date:   06 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

.- Prologue.- Introduction.- Part I Feminist perspectives on security and criminalization.- Control, Power and Victimization: Stories of Women in Prison.- Security, the State, and Care. A Feminist Critique.- Where is the transness? Sex/Gender, Security, and the Idea of Danger.- Part II Challenging gender stereotypes in criminal justice: Inter-American and national practices.- Data Against Feminicide: Confronting Stereotypes and Silences with Feminist Data Work.- The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Gender-Responsive Approach to Ensuring Women’s Rights in Prison: A Closer Look at Advisory Opinion OC-29/22.- Women Resisting: Formerly Incarcerated Women Organize to Bring Down the Bars.- Part III The effects of incarceration on women and children.- House arrest: an analysis of the Brazilian reality.- The gendered impacts of a parent’s incarceration on girls.- Women, Motherhood, and Confinement in Argentina: Insights from Data Production and Analysis.

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Corina Giacomello is Professor of Sociology of Law at the Institute of Judicial Studies of the Autonomous University of Chiapas, Mexico. She is an academic and international consultant with expertise in gender studies, children’s rights, criminal justice and prison systems and drug policies. She has 20 years of experience in advocacy-oriented research and development of legal, judicial and public policy proposals at the national and international level.

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