Brings together a wide range of feminist research focused on women’s lived experiences and centred on their own narratives. Drawing on expertise in contemporary fields of study, using cutting-edge participatory, inclusive and narrative methodologies, the book updates Carlen’s pioneering work for current times.The primary audience for this book will be academics and students (both undergraduates and postgraduates) of Criminology and crime-related social policy and sociology degrees. It will also be of interest to students of women’s studies, forensic psychology, law, sociology, applied social sciences, politics and human rights.Accounts of female offenders’ journeys into the criminal justice system are often silenced or marginalized. Featuring a Foreword from Pat Carlen and inspired by her seminal book ‘Criminal Women’, this collection uses participatory, inclusive and narrative methodologies to highlight the lived experiences of women involved with the criminal justice system. It presents studies focused on drug use and supply, sex work, sexual exploitation and experiences of imprisonment. Bringing together cutting-edge feminist research, this book exposes the intersecting oppressions and social control often central to women’s experiences of the justice system and offers invaluable insights for developing penal policies that account for the needs of women.Bringing together cutting-edge feminist research to update Pat Carlen’s seminal book ‘Criminal Women’, this collection uses participatory, inclusive and narrative methodologies to highlight the lived experiences of women involved with the criminal justice system. It offers invaluable insights for the development of penal policies which account for the needs of women.