Women In The Prison Service
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Women In The Prison Service
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Author : Great Britain. HM Prison Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Women In The Prison Service written by Great Britain. HM Prison Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Prisons categories.
Invisible Women
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Author : Angela Devlin
language : en
Publisher: Waterside Press
Release Date : 1998
Invisible Women written by Angela Devlin and has been published by Waterside Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Criminals categories.
More and more women are being sent to prison: at the time when this book was written UK numbers had doubled over the last five years, and the Prison Reform Trust called this 'a rate of increase without precedent in the modern era.' Indeed, the figures for convicted women shows an even greater increase - 76% according to the National Association of Probation Officers, more than twice the increase for men. Though the media focuses on high profile prisoners like Myra Hindley and Rosemary West, most women become 'invisible' as soon as they pass through the prison gates and are subsumed into a world that is predominantly masculine and insensitive to their very different needs. The author spent the past five years visiting twelve of the 16 prisons that take women, interviewing prisoners and, more unusually, those whose job it is to care for them - prison officers, education, probation and healthcare staff, chaplains and counsellors. In a book that is deliberately accessible to the general reader as well as to the prison professional, she vividly recreates the realities of prison life for a woman at the end of the twentieth century, as conditions worsen with overcrowding, staff shortages and expenditure cuts. Some of Devlin's findings will shock as well as inform: she describes the over-use of medication as a means of control; the violence resulting from drug misuse; the plight of ethnic minority and foreign national women, and the self-mutilation and suicide attempts of women in desperate need of help.
Women In The Prison Service
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Author : Great Britain. Prison Department
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Women In The Prison Service written by Great Britain. Prison Department and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Prison wardens categories.
Women In Prison
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Author : Barbara H. Zaitzow
language : en
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Release Date : 2003
Women In Prison written by Barbara H. Zaitzow and has been published by Lynne Rienner Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Sex role categories.
It is old news that the conditions and policies of women's prisons are different from those for incarcerated men. Less evident, however, is how gender differences shape those policies, and how gender identity and roles shape women's adaptation and resistance to prison culture and control. The papers in this collection explore how the gender-based attitudes that women bring to prison frame how they respond to the prison environment -- and how gender stereotypes continue to affect the treatment and opportunities of incarcerated women today. It looks particularly at how the personal and social problems imported into the prison setting become part of the intricate web of prison culture and how extensively women's prison experience reflects the control and domination they experienced in the outside world.
Analysing Women S Imprisonment
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Author : Pat Carlen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
Analysing Women S Imprisonment written by Pat Carlen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Law categories.
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. This text is concerned to address the key issues relating to women's imprisonment, contributing at the same time to an understanding of prison issues in general and the historical and contemporary politics of gender and penal justice. What are women's prisons for? What are they like? Why are lone mothers, ethnic minority and very poor women disproportionately represented in the women's prison population? Should babies be sent to prison with their mothers? These are amongst the issues with which this book is concerned. Analysing Women's Imprisonment is written as an introductory text to the subject, aiming to guide students of penology carefully through the main historical and contemporary discourses on women's imprisonment. Each chapter has a clear summary ('concepts to know'), essay questions and recommendations for further reading, and will help students prepare confidently for seminars, course examinations and project work.
Women Prisoners And Health Justice
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Author : Dianne Hatton
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2018-04-19
Women Prisoners And Health Justice written by Dianne Hatton and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-19 with Medical categories.
Incarceration severely affects the health and wellbeing of women both during their incarceration and following release, further complicating the health disparities they already experience as a consequence of gender, race and social class. The scope of this international problem remains largely hidden from health professionals and policy makers. This book brings the issues into the light, with contributions from leading advocates, criminologists, feminists, nurses, physicians, public health professionals, social workers, sociologists and former prisoners.
Engendering Resistance Agency And Power In Women S Prisons
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Author : Mary Bosworth
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Engendering Resistance Agency And Power In Women S Prisons written by Mary Bosworth and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Social Science categories.
This book explores how power is negotiated in women’s prisons. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in three penal establishments in England, it analyses how women manage the restrictions of imprisonment and the manner in which they attempt to resist institutional control. It is proposed that power is negotiated on a private, individual level, as women often resist the institution simply by trying to maintain an image of control over their own lives. However, their image of themselves as active, reasoning agents is undermined by institutional regimes which encourage traditional, passive, feminine behaviour at the same time as they deny the women their identities and responsibilities as mothers, wives, girlfriends and sisters. Femininity is, therefore, both the form and the goal of women’s imprisonment. Yet paradoxically, femininity also offers the possibility of resistance, because women manage to rebel by appropriating and changing aspects of it.
Women Behind Bars
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Author : Silja J. A. Talvi
language : en
Publisher: Seal Press
Release Date : 2007-11-02
Women Behind Bars written by Silja J. A. Talvi and has been published by Seal Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-02 with Social Science categories.
More and more women—mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters—are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars. Oddly, there’s been little public discussion about the dramatic increase of women in the prison system. What exactly is happening here, and why? The answers are in Women Behind Bars, in which investigative journalist Silja Talvi sheds light on why American girls and women are being locked up at such unprecedented rates. Talvi travels across the country to weave together interviews with inmates, correctional officers, and administrators, providing readers with a glance at the impact incarceration has on our society. With a combination of compassion and critical analysis, Talvi delivers a timely, in-depth analysis of a growing and extremely complicated issue.
Sledgehammer
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Author : P. Carlen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1998-09-13
Sledgehammer written by P. Carlen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-13 with Social Science categories.
Pat Carlen's compelling and compassionate analysis of the penal control of women at the end of the twentieth century is based on new research completed in 1997. She develops many of the themes of previous work, while introducing new concepts such as 'gender-testing', and 'ameliorative justice'. Skilfully and vividly presenting the words and views of both staff and inmates of the women's prisons, Carlen presents a powerful case for both a quantitative and qualitative reduction in women's imprisonment.
Women Prison Crime
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Author : Joycelyn M. Pollock
language : en
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2002
Women Prison Crime written by Joycelyn M. Pollock and has been published by Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Education categories.
This book takes a comprehensive look at women in America's prisons, covering the history of women's prisons, crime rates, and sentencing practices. It provides detailed descriptions of prisoner subcultures, programs, management and staff issues, and legal issues of female prisoners, while also expanding beyond U.S. soil to compare women's prisons in other countries.