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Women Lifers
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Author : Meredith Huey Dye
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-06-08
Women Lifers written by Meredith Huey Dye and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-08 with Social Science categories.
The number of women in United States prisons has increased dramatically since the 1980s, and has in proportion outpaced that of men’s incarceration. Despite these numbers, incarcerated women, and women lifers specifically, represent a relatively small percentage of the overall correctional and lifer populations. As such, women lifers are easy to overlook, discount, and diminish as such a small group. Many women lifers perceive themselves as a forgotten group; most often those whom we “lock up” and “throw away the key”. They feel excluded from prison programming within and from their own families outside. They feel stigmatized by staff and other women in prison. Aging fast, many have real fears about declining health and losing family members over lengthy stretches of time. However, women lifers are some of the most resilient and strongest women who survive life in prison with the support of each other and religious faith, often transforming themselves in the process of doing time. While most of the women had extensive histories of trauma, abuse, and mental health issues, few had prior experience as offenders. Despite the term “lifer”, many of these women will be released from prison after serving long sentences. Beyond this basic profile, there is much more to learn and share about the lives of women lifers. Focusing on women’s pathways into prison, the ways they cope with life behind bars, and their diverse reentry needs, Meredith Dye and Ronald Aday give voice to women lifers and place their experiences within the larger context of penal harm policies. The authors look at their physical and mental health, family connections, adjustment to prison, prison supports and activities, and experiences with abuse/trauma; while also looking at the growing public and policy concerns over mass incarceration in general. Women Lifers provides insight into the lives of incarcerated women before, during, and following a life sentence, especially the population of those serving life sentences. With the growing numbers of women lifers in the United States, the authors emphasize the importance for the public and policymakers to understand the unique circumstances that brought these women to prison, the policies that keep them there, and the major challenges they face in carving out a successful life in prison and beyond.
Women Prisoners And Health Justice
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Author : Diane C. Hatton
language : en
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Women Prisoners And Health Justice written by Diane C. Hatton and has been published by Radcliffe Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 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.
Women Prisoners A Psycho Social Diagnosis
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Author : Dr. Vidyadhar S. Naganahalli
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-03-13
Women Prisoners A Psycho Social Diagnosis written by Dr. Vidyadhar S. Naganahalli and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-13 with Education categories.
Female criminality and female offenders are the phenomena so rarely addressed by the fraternity of social science academia despite their being of immense social significance and important policy implications. Although all along neglected in social science circles as a phenomena of rare incidence and hence less crucial, of late there has been growing realization that female criminality and its outcome are of far greater consequences and could have more far reaching implications than crime by men and its negative fallout owing to roles of crucial functional significance being allocated to women by the society. Further, even the rarity of female criminality is gradually loosing ground with incidence of crime by women being on the rise.
Women Doing Life
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Author : Lora Bex Lempert
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2016-02-19
Women Doing Life written by Lora Bex Lempert and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-19 with Social Science categories.
"In Women Doing Life, Lora Bex Lempert examines the carceral experiences of women serving life sentences, presenting a typology of the ways that life-sentenced women grow and self-actualize, resist prison definitions, reflect on and own their criminal acts, and ultimately create meaningful lives behind prison walls. Looking beyond the explosive headlines that often characterize these women as monsters, Lempert offers rare insight into this vulnerable, little studied population. Her gendered analysis considers the ways that women do crime differently than men and how they have qualitatively different experiences of imprisonment than their male counterparts."--Provided by publisher.
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.
Razor Wire Women
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Author : Jodie Michelle Lawston
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2011-04-11
Razor Wire Women written by Jodie Michelle Lawston and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-11 with Social Science categories.
Offering nuanced portraits of women's lives inside razor wire and prison walls, Razor Wire Women puts incarcerated women in dialogue with scholars, artists, educators and activists who live outside of prisons but work on issues connected to the prison industrial complex. Women make up the fastest-growing group of the U.S. prison population, yet prison scholarship largely overlooks the struggles of incarcerated women, and their voices are often silenced both in and out of the prison infrastructure. From the vantage points of those both inside and outside of prisons, this collection of essays and art illuminates many of the distinct experiences and concerns of incarcerated women, including those of girls in prison, abuse and rape, the policing of women, incarcerated motherhood, mental health issues in prisons, incarcerated women's artistic and cultural production, and prisons' impact on families, health, and sexuality. Combining the transcendence, hope and clarity of art with powerful analytical and conceptual tools, Razor Wire Women reveals the gendered dimensions of the incarceration now experienced by a growing number of women in the U.S.
The Story Within Us
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Author : Megan Sweeney
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2012-09-15
The Story Within Us written by Megan Sweeney and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-15 with Social Science categories.
This volume features in-depth, oral interviews with eleven incarcerated women, each of whom offers a narrative of her life and her reading experiences within prison walls. The women share powerful stories about their complex and diverse efforts to negotiate difficult relationships, exercise agency in restrictive circumstances, and find meaning and beauty in the midst of pain. Their shared emphases on abuse, poverty, addiction, and mental illness illuminate the pathways that lead many women to prison and suggest possibilities for addressing the profound social problems that fuel crime. Framing the narratives within an analytic introduction and reflective afterword, Megan Sweeney highlights the crucial intellectual work that the incarcerated women perform despite myriad restrictions on reading and education in U.S. prisons. These women use the limited reading materials available to them as sources of guidance and support and as tools for self-reflection and self-education. Through their creative engagements with books, the women learn to reframe their own life stories, situate their experiences in relation to broader social patterns, deepen their understanding of others, experiment with new ways of being, and maintain a sense of connection with their fellow citizens on both sides of the prison fence.
Women Doing Life
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Author : Lora Bex Lempert
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2016-02-19
Women Doing Life written by Lora Bex Lempert and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-19 with Social Science categories.
"In Women Doing Life, Lora Bex Lempert examines the carceral experiences of women serving life sentences, presenting a typology of the ways that life-sentenced women grow and self-actualize, resist prison definitions, reflect on and own their criminal acts, and ultimately create meaningful lives behind prison walls. Looking beyond the explosive headlines that often characterize these women as monsters, Lempert offers rare insight into this vulnerable, little studied population. Her gendered analysis considers the ways that women do crime differently than men and how they have qualitatively different experiences of imprisonment than their male counterparts."--Provided by publisher.
Women Prisoners
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Author : Beverly R. Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1993-07-30
Women Prisoners written by Beverly R. Fletcher and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-07-30 with Social Science categories.
This study is an important step in examining factors associated with the rising rates of female recidivism. Moreover, this timely research will provide a data base that will ultimately lead to the development and institutionalization of strategies to interrupt the cycle of female inmate recidivism in Oklahoma.
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.