Marking Time in the Golden State - Women''s Imprisonment in California

Klappentext In this book! the authors examine how women prisoners' lives changed over time and how they were affected by a new generation of prisons. Zusammenfassung In this 2005 book! prisoners are treated as important sources of knowledge about prisons and imprisonment during the last three decades. The authors examine both how women prisoners' lives changed over time and how they were affected by the new generation of prisons. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the study unfolds; 1. Women, crime and punishment; 2. Entering the inmate's world: methods; 3. Time after time: women's experiences of imprisonment at the California institution for women in the 1960s and the 1990s; 4. Variations across time and place in women's prison experiences; 5. Negotiating prison life: how women 'do time' in the punitive era of the 1990s; 6. Conclusion: the spectrum of women prisoners' experiences; Appendix. Characteristics of interviewees; References.

Product details

• Authors: Rosemary Gartner, Candace Kruttschnitt, Candace Gartner Kruttschnitt
• Assisted by: Alfred Blumstein (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.2004
• EAN: 9780521532655
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53265-5
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories