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Pregnancy and New Motherhood in Prison /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baldwin, Lucy
Other Authors: Abbott, Laura
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, an imprint of Bristol University Press, 2024.
Subjects:
Women prisoners > Family relationships.
Pregnant women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Children of women prisoners.
Mother and child.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Pregnancy and New Motherhood in Prison
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • ONE Context and landscape of pregnancy and new motherhood in prison
  • Introduction
  • Mother and baby unit applications
  • Experiences of mothers: the danger of unsupported separations
  • Michelle Barnes
  • From the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman report
  • The dangers of an incarcerated pregnancy
  • Ms A
  • From the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman's report
  • Ms B (aka Louise Powell) and baby Brooke-Leigh Powell
  • From the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman's report
  • The authors' underpinning research
  • The voices of mothers
  • Conclusion
  • TWO How we came to be here: 100 years of criminalised motherhood
  • Introduction
  • 100 years of pregnancy and new motherhood in prison
  • 19th- and 20th-century women in prison
  • Prison reform and activism in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Present-day reviews and reform
  • Evidence from Baldwin and Abbott's research and the contemporary landscape
  • Anxiety, stress and shame
  • Minoritised pregnant mothers
  • Conclusion
  • THREE The 'journey' to incarcerated motherhood
  • Introduction
  • The mothers' experiences before criminalisation and/or prison: missed opportunities
  • Experiences of being mothered
  • Living in a 'circle of circumstance'
  • Cycles of trauma
  • Motherhood, motivation and desistance
  • The criminal justice response to pregnant and new mothers
  • Sentencing guidelines
  • Progress?
  • In practice?
  • The mothers' voices: experiences of arrest and sentencing
  • Awareness of mother and baby units
  • Conclusion
  • FOUR Motherhood confined
  • Introduction
  • Early days in prison
  • Prison as a safe space?
  • Stress and feeling 'unsafe'
  • Shame and being a 'pregnant prisoner'
  • Antenatal care
  • Pregnancy, prison and hospital appointments
  • Pregnancy, prison and food
  • Miscarriage and births in prison
  • Mother and baby units
  • The application
  • 'Like living in a goldfish bowl'
  • Conclusion
  • FIVE The persisting pain of incarcerated pregnancy and new motherhood
  • Introduction
  • Post-prison guilt, stigma and shame
  • Layered shame
  • Spoiled maternal identity
  • Guilt
  • Birth and starting life in prison
  • The multi-layered legacy of prison pregnancy and new motherhood
  • 'Inability to move on' and friendship
  • Disrupted realities
  • Finding resilience
  • Support: fear of asking/lack of
  • Difficult choices, difficult consequences
  • Post-prison trauma
  • Vicarious trauma
  • Motherhood and desistance
  • Conclusion
  • SIX Personal experiences of pregnancy and motherhood in prison and the value of the voluntary sector in challenging the system
  • Introduction
  • The Birth Companions Lived Experience Team
  • About Birth Companions
  • Our approach to building engagement
  • Our services