Swehli, Mariam;
Rivas, Carol;
Stokes, Gillian;
(2025)
Beneath skin-deep? Why colour-blind policies perpetuate racial stratification for justice-involved women.
Ethnic and Racial Studies
10.1080/01419870.2025.2524600.
(In press).
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Abstract
This article critiques how colour-blind policies perpetuate racial stratification in the British criminal justice system. An examination of racial disparities faced by minoritised racial and ethnic women throughout the system, including biased media and policing, sentencing disparities, the overrepresentation in prisons, and how the body is treated in prison, is presented through a colonial and socio-political context. It argues that policies must take an intersectional approach, with consideration of the impact of wider societal beliefs on women from racial and ethnic minorities. To move away from racial hierarchies, the government must acknowledge the historical and continued injustice that colour-blind policies foster in the criminal justice system for women from racial and ethnic minoritised populations.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Beneath skin-deep? Why colour-blind policies perpetuate racial stratification for justice-involved women |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01419870.2025.2524600 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2524600 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Criminology; intersectionality; feminism; law; discrimination; prisons |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10211792 |
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