Women and Criminal Justice in Latin America

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.

. - 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.