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Preventing homelessness among women prison leavers in Wales (2020)
Journal Article
Gorden, C., Lockwood, K., Maddoc, I., Hughes, C., Washing-Dyer, K., Wilding, M., & Ahmed, A. (2020). Preventing homelessness among women prison leavers in Wales. European Journal of Criminology, 19(6), 1438-1460. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370820980433

Under the Housing (Wales) Act 2014, prison leavers are among those who are no longer considered a priority need. This article draws on interviews conducted with 17 women prison leavers and 10 professionals that formed part of a Welsh Government funde... Read More about Preventing homelessness among women prison leavers in Wales.

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.

Constructive Connections : building resilience of families affected by the criminal justice system : final report (2020)
Report
Long, T., Lockwood, K., Raikes, B., Sharratt, K., Loucks, N., & Nugent, B. (2020). Constructive Connections : building resilience of families affected by the criminal justice system : final report

The Stimulus for the Study NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde had identified through previous research that there was a need to engage with families that are affected by the criminal justice system in order to improve the experience for children an... Read More about Constructive Connections : building resilience of families affected by the criminal justice system : final report.