{"product_id":"punishing-women","title":"Punishing Women","description":"In 2007, Baroness Jean Corston released a damning report on women's prisons in the UK. Written in the wake of the self-inflicted deaths of six women, it was a portrait of a system in disarray and advocated for 'radical change'. Twenty years on, very little has changed. Only now, our prisons are overflowing - a result of successive governments introducing new offences and souped-up sentences to appear 'tough on crime'. The reality, however, is that these measures are 'tough' on those in our society who most need our support. Most of the women in our prisons are survivors of domestic abuse, many are in the grip of addictions, serving repeat short sentences rather than being admitted for rehabilitative care, and countless more are mothers forcibly separated from their children - women who, in their attempts to survive at the sharpest edges of society, are met with punishment instead of support. In this humane work of investigative reporting, Janey Starling introduces us to the women inside our prisons, while offering a searing critique of the UK's approach to crime, exposing these institutions as both ethically and economically indefensible in today's society.","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59313009819983,"sku":"9781803513423","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/punishing-women","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}