Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia - (Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology) (Paperback)

About the Book

This volume contains two Open Access Chapters.

This volume features contributions from activist scholars grappling to understand and alleviate the compound sufferings of women and LGBTIQA+ persons as they encounter criminal justice systems in Southeast Asia.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

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.--Rimple Mehta [MEHTA, R. (2024). Book Review: Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia (Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology) by JEFFERSON, A.M. AND JEFFRIES, S. Social & Legal Studies, 0(0). https: //doi.org/10.1177/09646639241272981]

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.

--Deborah H. Drake, Department of Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University

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.

--Juan Marcellus Tauri, University of Waikato and Centre for Global Indigeneity

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.

--Mary Bosworth, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford

About the Author

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.