Kelly Hannah-Moffat
- Affiliation: University of Toronto
Kelly Hanna-Moffat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto at Mississauga. She worked as a ressearcher and policy advisor for the Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston. She is a past-president of the Toronto Elizabeth Fry Society, a halfway house and organization that works for and on behalf of all women in conflict with the law. Her publications include: Punishment in Disguise: The Governance of Canadian Women’s Federal Imprisonment, “Moral Agent Or Actuarial Subject: Risk and Canadian Women’s Imprisonment” and “Prisons that Empower: Neoliberal Governance in Canadian Women’s Prisons.”
Books by Kelly Hannah-Moffat
An Ideal Prison?
Critical Essays on Women’s Imprisonment in Canada
Edited by Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Margaret Shaw
Ten years after the publication of Creating Choices, a remarkable report on women’s imprisonment in Canada, this book sets out to reflect on attempts to reform prison. In a series of critical essays, the contributors stimulate reflection and discussion. They explore the effects of punishment and penality on women’s lives, the impact of feminist reforms on the lives of women in prison and the systemic barriers which limit change in the context of both provincial and federal prisons. Each… (more information)