Gebundenes Buch

Lives of Incarcerated Women

An international perspective

Herausgeber: Kruttschnitt, Candace; Bijleveld, Catrien

Beschreibung

Drawing on research from around the world, this book brings together renowned international scholars to explore life-course perspectives on women's imprisonment and sheds light on the moderating effects of particular cultural contexts.

Autor

Candace Kruttschnitt is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and served as President of the American Society of Criminology. She received her PhD from Yale University and her research has focused on women offenders, the victimization of women and female inmates. She is the author and editor of several books and government reports related to female offending, victimization and imprisonment. Catrien Bijleveld studied psychology and criminal law, both at Leiden University. Her PhD was on the statistical analysis of categorical time series. After working as an assistant professor at Leiden University she moved to the WODC Research and Documentation Center of the Netherlands Ministry of Justice. In 2001, she moved to NSCR in Leiden, and became professor of Criminological Research Methods at the VU University in Amsterdam.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781138803718
• ISBN-10: 1138803715
• Artikelnr.: 42741668