Scraton P, Moore L
Professor of Criminology, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Int J Prison Health. 2009;5(3):153-65. doi: 10.1080/17449200903115813.
Informed by primary interviews and observational research conducted by the authors with women prisoners in Northern Ireland, this article focuses on prison as an institutional manifestation of women's powerlessness and vulnerability, particularly those enduring mental ill-health. It contextualises their experiences within continua of violence and 'unsafety'. It also considers official responses to critical inspection reports and those of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission based on the authors' research findings. Finally, the primary research demonstrates that three decades on from publication the first critical analyses of women's imprisonment, the conditions of gendered marginalisation, medicalisation and punishment remain. This is brought into stark relief in the punitive regimes imposed on those most vulnerable through mental ill-health.
基于作者对北爱尔兰女性囚犯进行的初步访谈和观察研究，本文聚焦于监狱这一体现女性无力与脆弱的机构，尤其是那些患有精神疾病的女性。文章将她们的经历置于暴力和“不安全”的连续情境中。同时，基于作者的研究结果，本文还探讨了官方对批判性检查报告以及北爱尔兰人权委员会报告的回应。最后，这项初步研究表明，自首次对女性监禁进行批判性分析发表三十年来，性别边缘化、医学化和惩罚的状况依然存在。这在对那些因精神疾病而最脆弱的人群实施的惩罚性制度中凸显无遗。
