Candace Kruttschnitt, Rosemary Gartner

Marking Time in the Golden State

Women's Imprisonment in California
Herausgeber: Blumstein, Alfred

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, the authors examine how women prisoners' lives changed over time and how they were affected by a new generation of prisons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9780521532655
• ISBN-10: 0521532655
• Artikelnr.: 22365823

Inhaltsangabe

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.