Motz, Anna
Invisible Trauma: Women, Difference and the Criminal Justice System
- ISBN 13:
- 9781138218666
- author:
- Motz, Anna
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Routledge
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 212
- Dimensions:
- 23.4 x 15.6 centimetres (0.35 kg
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Psychology, Forensic Psychology,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Invisible Trauma: Women, Difference and the Criminal Justice System explores how women who have been judged violent and criminal are perceived through a distorted lens. Their histories of trauma and suffering remain hidden, making them "hypervisible" in their difference. The authors argue that it is essential to trace the traumatic roots of women's violence and criminality, highlighting powerful intergenerational factors that perpetuate cycles of offending and trauma re-enactment. This book presents a psychoanalytically informed account of the development of violence and other offending, identifying pathways for change to address trauma within the lives of these women and their children. Invaluable for professionals working in clinical and forensic psychology, mental health nursing, and social work, as well as frontline practitioners in the criminal justice system and third sector organisations, Invisible Trauma sheds light on the role of emotional, social, and cultural forces in traumatising women who come into contact with the criminal justice system.
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