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How Sentencing Reform Movements Affect Women
From: Sentencing in Canada
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Chapter 13 provides an overview of how sentencing reform movements impact women specifically. It includes a discussion of the gendered experience and impacts of imprisonment and a comparison of different sentencing reform movements in Canada.
Contributors
Lisa Kerr
Lisa Kerr, JD (UBC), LLM, JSD (New York University), is assistant professor at Queen’s University, where she is the director of the Criminal Law Group and teaches courses on criminal law, sentencing, and prison law. Professor Kerr was previously staff lawyer at Prisoners’ Legal Services in British Columbia. She completed her doctorate at New York University as a Trudeau Scholar. She has worked on strategic litigation with Pivot Legal Society and the Queen’s Prison Law Clinic. She also serves on the board of the BC Civil Liberties Association.
