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Women prisoners regulating prisons: Did Corston achieve networked, participatory regulation?

Buck, Gillian
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Tomczak, Philippa
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University of Chester; University of Nottingham
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2025-06-16
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Prison regulators across scales hold potential to illuminate harms of imprisonment and influence alternatives, yet criminologists rarely engage with these mechanisms. We analyse prisoners’ participatory roles in the ‘transformative’ Corston Report (2007) and The Corston Report 10 Years On (Women in Prison, 2017), using actor-network-theory to guide document analysis. Corston called for a radically different, woman-centred approach to criminal justice, but women’s voices were often peripheral, or they were constructed as ‘pathetic’. There is unrealised potential for regulatory efforts to network imprisoned women and their families with other regulators, deepening understanding of problems connected to prisons, for broader social benefit.
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Buck, G., & Tomczak, P. (2025). Women prisoners regulating prisons: Did Corston achieve networked, participatory regulation? The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, vol(issue), pages. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12604
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Wiley
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
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http://hdl.handle.net/10034/629132
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10.1111/hojo.12604
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© 2025 The Author(s). The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice published by Howard League and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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2059-1101
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UK Research and Innovation, Economic and Social Research Council grant number MR/T019085/1.
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hojo.12604