Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia

This exciting new collection reinvigorates prison studies and feminist criminology. Offering a sobering glimpse into the lived reality of prisons in Southeast Asia, it reminds us of the salience of gender in understanding incarceration and the urgent need for action.

-- Mary Bosworth, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford

The breadth of issues covered makes this contribution an invaluable resource for criminologists, social activists, jurists and policymakers working to enhance the efficacy of criminal justice policy and practice in Southeast Asia and elsewhere.

-- Juan Marcellus Tauri, University of Waikato and Centre for Global Indigeneity

This collection provides data, analyses, theorizations and experiences of populations that much of the Western world has ignored or overlooked. Shifting criminology’s gaze toward such issues from a Southeast Asian perspective is a most welcome and much-needed adjustment.

-- Deborah H. Drake, Department of Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University
An excellent contribution towards unpacking the meaning of participation in the social world […] each of the contributors makes an important contribution towards furthering our understanding of prisons and experiences of women and gender and sexual minorities in prisons in the Global South. In this regard, the edited volume fills an important gap in criminology literature. -- Rimple Mehta [MEHTA, R. (2024). Book Review: Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia (Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology) by JEFFERSON, A.M. AND JEFFRIES, S. Social & Legal Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639241272