Analysing Women''s Imprisonment

Informationen zum Autor Pat Carlen Zusammenfassung In both the UK and the rest of the world there have been rapid increases in the numbers of women in prison, which has led to an acceleration of interest in women's crimes and the social control of women, and women's experience of both prison and the criminal justice system is very different to men's. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Histories of women's imprisonment 2. Women in prison: the facts 3. Women in prison: contemporary issues 4. Theories of women's imprisonment 5. Alternatives to custody 6. Feminist theories of imprisonment and penal politics 7. Investigating women's imprisonment: practical issues

Product details

• Authors: Pat Carlen, Pat (University of Leicester Carlen, Carlen Pat, Anne Worrall
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2004
• EAN: 9781843920700
• ISBN: 978-1-84392-070-0
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Gender studies, gender groups, Penology and punishment, Prisons, Criminal justice law