Partial Justice - Women, Prisons and Social Control

Contemporary Research on crime, prisons, and social control has largely ignored women

List of contents

I: Development of the Women’s Prison System; 1: “Much and Unfortunately Neglected”: Women in Early and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Prisons; 2: Origins of the Women’s Reformatory, 1870–1900; 3: The Women’s Reformatory Movement, 1900–1935: From Success to Decline; 4: Custodial Prisons For Women, 1870–1935; II: The Implementation of Punishment; Introduction; 5: Conviction Offenses, Sentences, and Prisoners at Five Institutions; 6: Race and Racism in State Prisons Holding Women, 1865–1935; 7: The Realization of Partial Justice: A Case Study of The Social Control of Women; 8: The Third Stage: The Women’s Prison System Since 1935; III: Gender and Justice; 9: Sex Discrimination in the Prison System: New Responses to the Perennial Problem

About the author

Nicole Rafter

Summary

Contemporary Research on crime, prisons, and social control has largely ignored women

Product details

• Authors: Nicole Rafter, Nicole Hahn Rafter, Rafter Nicole Hahn
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.1990
• EAN: 9780887388262
• ISBN: 978-0-88738-826-2
• No. of pages: 322
• Weight: 476 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Offenders