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This unique book provides a rare insight into the debilitating impact of regimes that fail to respond to the complex and gender specific needs of women behind bars. Exploring the marginalization, mental health and experiences of women in prison, it specifically focuses on the legacy of women´s imprisonment in Northern Ireland.

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Foreword 1. Histories of female incarceration 2. Agency, Violence and Regulation in the Incarceration of Women 3. Researching Prison: Women´s Voices 4. Women´s imprisonment, conflict and transition 5. Inside a Deteriorating Regime 6. Self Harm and Suicide 7. Tale of Two Inquests 8. Hydebank Wood: The Prison Within 9. Women in Prison, the Pain of Confinement and Decarceration

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Linda Moore is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Criminology, Politics and Social Policy at the University of Ulster, UK.

Phil Scraton is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Childhood, Transition and Social Justice Initiative at Queen´s University, Belfast, UK. His recent books include Power, Conflict and Criminalisation, Hillsborough: The Truth and The Violence of Incarceration.

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