Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- About the contributors -- 1 Introduction: Women and punishment -- 2 Gender issues in penal policy and penal theory -- 3 Rendering women punishable: the making of a penal crisis -- 4 Youth prostitution policy reform: new discourse, same old story -- 5 A gender-wise prison: opportunities for, and limits to, reform -- 6 Women-centred: the West Mercia community-based programme for women offenders -- 7 The Women at Risk programme -- 8 Women's imprisonment: cross-national lessons -- 9 Women's prisons in England: barriers to reform -- 10 Time to think again about cognitive behavioural programmes -- 11 Creating choices: reflecting on choices -- 12 New discourses of justification and reform for women's imprisonment in England -- References -- Index