All Outputs (3)

The gendered nature of prison work : empathy, mothering and emotions of female prison officers in a women's prison (2020)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2020). The gendered nature of prison work : empathy, mothering and emotions of female prison officers in a women's prison. In K. Lockwood (Ed.), Mothering from the inside : research on motherhood and imprisonment (145-162). Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-343-320201011

Academic literature portrays prison officers in various ways; as insensitive figures lurking in the background (Cohen & Taylor, 1972) as brutes prone to violence (Kauffman, 1988) or more positively as noble people struggling to get the job done as be... Read More about The gendered nature of prison work : empathy, mothering and emotions of female prison officers in a women's prison.

Negotiating pregnancy, new motherhood and imprisonment (2020)
Book Chapter
Abbott, L., & Lockwood, K. (2020). Negotiating pregnancy, new motherhood and imprisonment. In K. Lockwood (Ed.), Mothering from the inside : research on motherhood and imprisonment (49-66). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-343-320201006

Around 7% of the female prison population are pregnant (Albertson, O'Keeffe, Lessing-Turner, Burke & Renfrew, 2014; Kennedy, Marshall, Parkinson, Delap & Abbott, 2016; Prison Reform Trust, 2019). However, although recent years have witnessed growing... Read More about Negotiating pregnancy, new motherhood and imprisonment.

The ties that bind : stories of women in prison who are mothers to older adult children (2020)
Book Chapter
Lockwood, K. (2020). The ties that bind : stories of women in prison who are mothers to older adult children. In K. Lockwood (Ed.), Mothering from the inside : research on motherhood and imprisonment (105-125). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-343-320201009

Focussing on the individual stories of mothers in prison and those who have recently been released from prison, within this chapter, I consider the way in which women story motherhood in relation to older adult children. Presenting three interrelated... Read More about The ties that bind : stories of women in prison who are mothers to older adult children.