CONTENTSIntroduction. / 1. Women and the Criminal Justice System: Discipline and Punish / . 2. From Court to Prison: Women on the Edge of Time. / 3. Prison Life: Now You See Me Now You Don't / . 4. Counting the Cost of Imprisonment: Speaking Up? / 5. Health Care and the Cost of Imprisonment / . 6. Within These Walls: Older Women in Custody. / 7. Forget Me Not: Criminal Women. / 8. Responses to Ageing: Women in the Criminal Justice System. / Index.
Azrini Wahidin is a lecturer of Criminology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent. She has written extensively on gerontology and is a frequent contributor to the media, as well as being a consultant for the Channel 4 documentary, Bus Pass Bandits. She is currently on the management committee for Women in Prison, and on the Advisory Council of the British Society of Criminology.