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Women's Imprisonment: A Study in Social Control
Contributor(s): Carlen, Pat (Author)
ISBN: 0367776383     ISBN-13: 9780367776381
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $138.60  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Penology
- Social Science | Criminology
- Social Science | Sociology - Social Theory
Dewey: 365.430
Physical Information: 254 pages
 
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First published in 1983, Women's Imprisonment explores the meanings of women's imprisonment and, in particular, the wider meanings of the 'moment' of prison.

Based on officially sponsored research in Cornton Vale, Scotland's only women's prison, the book makes extensive use of interviews with sheriffs, policemen, and social workers, as well as observation in the prisons, the courts, and the lodging-houses. The author quotes from interviews with women recidivist prisoners, the judges who send them to prison, and the agencies which assist them in between their periods of imprisonment. In doing so, questions are raised about the meanings of imprisonment and the penal disciplining of women at the time of original publication. The book also examines the changing and various meanings of imprisonment in general and the invisible nature of the social control of women in particular.