Women Lifers - Lives Before, Behind, and Beyond Bars

Women Lifers brings to light the pressing need for gender-responsive policies in correctional systems in the United States by tracing women’s lives before, during, and following a life sentence.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to Women Lifers

Chapter 2 Life Before a Life Sentence

Chapter 3 Bruised, Bullied, and Battered

Chapter 4 Life Behind Bars: Living with a Life Sentence

Chapter 5 Family Matters

Chapter 6 Health Concerns and Practices

Chapter 7 Enduring Grief and Loss

Chapter 8 Keeping the Faith

Chapter 9 Life Beyond Bars: Hopes, Expectations, and Fears for Release

Chapter 10 Conclusions: Challenging the Existing Narrative about Women Lifers

About the author

Meredith Dye, PhD, is a professor of sociology at Middle Tennessee State University. Her research focuses on the effects of incarceration, prison suicide, and women in prison. Recent publications have appeared in Women and Criminal Justice, Prison Journal, and Criminal Justice and Behavior.Ronald H. Aday, PhD, is a professor of sociology at Middle Tennessee State University. He has published several books including Crime and the Elderly, Aging Prisoners: Crisis in American Corrections, and Women Aging in Prison as well as over fifty articles and book chapters.

Summary

Women Lifers brings to light the pressing need for gender-responsive policies in correctional systems in the United States by tracing women’s lives before, during, and following a life sentence.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald H. Aday, Aday Ronald H., Meredith Huey Dye, Meredith Huey Aday Dye
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781538113028
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-1302-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Criminal Law / Sentencing, Strafverhängung, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Gender studies: women and girls, Sentencing & punishment, Sentencing and punishment