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women, prison, and life behind bars
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rathbone, Cristina
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2005
- Thesaurus
- gevangenissen, vrouwengevangenissen, criminaliteit, drugs, verslavingen
- Description
- The number of men in American prisons has doubled in the past 20 years: the number of women incarcerated in the U.S.—now approaching a million—has quintupled during the same period. Journalist Rathbone fought in the courts for years to secure access to these women, and her passion and tenacity are on display in this clear-eyed account of life inside Massachusetts's MCI-Framingham, the oldest women's prison in the country. The numbing sameness of women's crimes—nonviolent offenses, mostly drug-related, make up three-fourths of female convictions—is transcended by Rathbone's focus on a handful of individual stories, The book avoids the temptation to frame these women as mere passive victims of a system or culture gone awry, although Rathbone does not hesitate to expose inefficiency, thoughtlessness and even abuse at all levels of the correctional bureaucracy. Poor psychological care, mandatory sentencing laws and institutionalized sexual exploitation also come in for heavy, thoughtful criticism.
special issues of women in prison
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Morash, Merry
- Creator
- Schram, Pamela J.
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3582 - B
- Thesaurus
- criminaliteit, moeders, seksueel geweld, gevangenbewaarders, gevangenissen, vrouwengevangenissen, geestelijke gezondheid
- Description
- Incarcerated women struggle to retain a sense of self-worth for themselves and often for their children. Scholarship on the subject has either ignored or trivialized the role of gender as an organizing feature of society. The result is a lack of emphasis on the role played by gender in the lives of women in a correctional setting. In this theoretically informed and empirically grounded textbook, Morash and Schram explain the realities of prison life for women from a feminist perspective. The hope for reform begins with an informed public so that a system premised on deterrence and punishment can also offer opportunities for rehabilitation.
the punishments they receive
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Simon, Rita James
- Creator
- Ahn-Redding, Heather
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2005
- Thesaurus
- criminaliteit, moorden, gevangenissen, vrouwengevangenissen, statistiek, 1950-1959, 1960-1969, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-1999
- Description
- In the past thirty years, women and crime has become a major intellectual and professional specialty. This book uses theories and experiences from subfields within sociology, psychology, and economics, where research on women who commit crimes has grown into a major area of interest.
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