Race and Probation

Written by leading women's movement scholars, this book is the first to systematically apply the idea of social movement abeyance to differing national and international contexts. Its starting point is the idea that the women's movement is over, an idea promoted in the media and encouraged by scholarship that regards disruptive action as a defining element of social movements. It goes on to compare the trajectories over the past 40 years of women's movements in Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Finally, it looks at the extension of feminist activism into supranational and subnational institutions--the global and the local--and into cyberspace. Comparing these diverse sites of political and social action illuminates some of the major opportunities and constraints that have impacted upon women's movements. It advances our understanding of the lifecycles of social movements by examining the differing ways in which women's movements operate and sustain themselves over time and space, ways that often differ from those of male-led movements. The book also engages with the question of whether there is an on-going women's movement--with sufficient continuity to warrant description as such--by presenting the voices of young activists East and West. Filling an important gap in social movement research, this book will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists and gender studies scholars and researchers.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: race, crime and community penalties Part One: Background 1. Room for improvement: a history of the Probation Service's response to race 2. Racially motivated offenders and the Probation Service 3. Race, Probation and Inspections Part Two: Black and Minority Ethnic offenders: their needs and experiences 4. Black and Asian men on probation: who are they, and what are their criminogenic needs? 5. Black and Asian men on probation: social exclusion, discrimination and experiences of criminal justice 6. The experiences of female minority ethnic offenders: the other 'other' 7. Not black and white: mixed heritage experiences of criminal justice Part Three: Recent Developments 8. Designing and delivering programmes for minority ethnic offenders 9. What Works with Black and minority ethnic offenders: solutions in search of a problem? 10. Minority ethnic experiences of probation supervision and programmes 11. What might work with racially motivated offenders? Part Four: Conclusions 12. Race and community penalties: conclusions and next steps