Browsing School of Applied Social Sciences by Author "Baldwin, Lucy"
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Alternatives to Custody :Lucy Baldwin ConsidersThe Recent Prison Reform Trust Paper on the Sentencing of Mothers
Baldwin, Lucy (Article)This article considers the Prison Reform Trust (PRT) discussion paper released in November 2015.The PRT paper highlights the main themes of the paper - which incorporates reference to the long and short term impact of ... -
Andrea Yates; An 'Unspeakable Crime'
Baldwin, Lucy (Article)On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates took the lives of all five of her children, drowning them in the bathtub of their home in Houston, Texas. The children, Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary were aged from seven years to 6 months. ... -
Bish ,Bosh ,Out
Baldwin, Lucy (Article)This article explores the over use of short sentences and the potential negative implications of the newly required minimum 12 month post sentence supervision of prisoners who have served a sentence of more than a day . -
Custody or Community:balancing the risk of reoffending and risk of harm aganst the 'need' for custodial sentences
Baldwin, Lucy (Article)This article explores proportionality in relation to punishment and particularly considers whether custody is the most appropriate option - specifically in relation to low level offending. The article considers Sentencers ... -
Grandmothering in the Context of Criminal Justice: Grandmothers in Prison and Grandmothers as Caregivers When a Parent is Imprisoned
Baldwin, Lucy (Book chapter)When a mother of young children is imprisoned, pain and heartache are perhaps seen as inevitable, and have been relatively well documented. What is less well reported are the effects on grandmother carers, or the adult ... -
The Impact of Short Sentences on Mothers
Baldwin, Lucy; Epstein, Rona (Article)This article, originally commissioned for the European Journal of Parental Imprisonment (Winter 2015 ed) explores the impact of short sentences on mothers , the appropriateness and proportionality of custodial sentences ... -
‘A Life Sentence’: The long-term impact of maternal imprisonment
Baldwin, Lucy (Book chapter)In the last decade research surrounding ‘maternal imprisonment’, has become more visible, the topic has garnered interest and attention in the UK in a way it had not previously enjoyed. For example, existing UK research ... -
Motherhood disrupted: Reflections of Post Prison Mothers
Baldwin, Lucy (Article)Prison is a challenging place for most women but this emotional space is magnified when it is a mother who is incarcerated. The maternal experience for mothers in prison is often at best disrupted, at worst destroyed, by ... -
Motherhood Judged: Social Exclusion, Mothers and Prison.
Baldwin, Lucy (Book chapter)Women, girls, mothers and grandmothers arguably all experience exclusion at some point in their lives – just by the very nature of being female in the first instance. Girls talk of being excluded from ‘grown women’ ... -
Mothering Interrupted: Mother-child separation via incarceration in England and Ireland.
O'Malley, S.; Baldwin, Lucy (Book chapter)This chapter explore the pains of imprisonment as a mother. The chapter, using the reflections of mothers, who via the authors' research in England and Ireland, highlights the common experience of imprisoned mothers. The ... -
Mothering Justice :Working with Mothers in Social & Criminal Justice Settings.
Baldwin, Lucy (Book)This book brings together a range of practitioner and user voice from a wide range of social and criminal justice settings in order to explore their relationship with mothers. The book explores how the status of 'mother' ... -
Mothers Behind Bars
Baldwin, Lucy (Article)This article highlights the issue of the increasing number of mothers behind bars and the failure of the courts to adhere to the Article 8 Rights of the Child (ECHR) -
Mothers Confined ;Part 1 Over the Threshold
Baldwin, Lucy (Article)This three part series for the Halsbury Law Exchange' think tank' explores issues surrounding the sentencing of mothers to custody. The article outlines areas where sentencers are 'failing' to take into account current ... -
Mothers Confined.Part 3 .Lead by Example ,Transforming Rehabilitation
Baldwin, Lucy (Article)This part of the series highlights the potential for women to be further disadvantaged by the TR agenda- possibly with more women than ever being received into custody as a result of breach of new licence requirements. In ... -
Mothers Confined:part 2. Over the Threshold
Baldwin, Lucy (Article)This section of the 3 part article highlights the number of women serving custodial sentences for non violent offences and would therefore often be appropriately dealt with by means of a community disposal. The article ... -
Mothers in Jail: At What price Justice.
Baldwin, Lucy (Article)This article explores the 'cost' of sending mothers to prison emotionally socially, psychologically and economically. ..The article explores the apparent justification of custody over community based alternatives - ... -
Parents in Prison :Fair doesnt have to mean same .
Baldwin, Lucy (Article)This article explores the interpretation of 'equal ' treatment and proportionality of punishment in relation to mothers and fathers sentenced to custody . It argues that 'punishment' is often disproportionate in relation ... -
Promises, promises: can the female offender strategy deliver?
Booth, Natalie; Masson, Isla; Baldwin, Lucy (Article)Following a number of postponements, the long awaited and much needed female offender strategy for England and Wales was finally published in June 2018. The strategy reflects the strong agreement across the sector of the ... -
Rules of Confinement :Time for Changing the Game
Baldwin, Lucy (Article)The female prison population has more than doubled since 1995 - with currently around 12.500 women sentenced to custody annually resulting in around 18-20000 children a year being affected by maternal incarceration. Sixty ... -
Short But Not Sweet: A study of the impact of short custodial sentences on mothers & their children
Baldwin, Lucy; Epstein, Rona (Other)This research report is based on a small scale study of 17 post prison mothers, and their fifty children The report serves to highlight the significant harm of short custodial sentences on mothers and their children. The ...