Browsing School of Applied Social Sciences by Author "Baldwin, Lucy"

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Short but not sweet: exploring the impact of short sentences on mothers

Baldwin, Lucy; Epstein, Rona (Article)

This article introduces the joint research of Baldwin & Epstein in relation to short sentences of mothers. The article discusses the impact and injustice in relation to mothers and their children - the disproportionate ...
Tainted Love: The Impact of Prison on Mothering Identity Explored via Mothers’ Post Prison Reflections

Baldwin, Lucy (Article)

Mothers enter prison already disadvantaged, judged, excluded and most often in pain. Prison magnifies challenges to mothering and mothering identity. This paper reflects on the described experiences of previously incarcerated ...
What is the Purpose of Punishment

Baldwin, Lucy (Article)

This article seeks to explore the political climate and its relationship with attitudes to punishment and perception of what actually constitutes punishment . It s a comment piece asking for a critical review of sentencing ...
Within these Walls: Reflections of women in and after prison: an insight into the experience of women’s imprisonment in Britain and Ireland.

Baldwin, Lucy; Quinlan, Christina (Article)

This paper, based on the authors’ continuing work with women in custody in Ireland and Britain over a period of 6 years, poignantly reminds us of the women in our prisons and the extraordinarily punitive sanction, that ...