In search of safety : confronting inequality in women's imprisonment

In search of safety : confronting inequality in women's imprisonment /

In Search of Safety takes a close look at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women's prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantages are at the root of prison conflict and violence and mirror the women's pathways to prison. Women must...

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Main Authors: Owen, Barbara A. (Author), Wells, James, Ph.D (Author), Pollock, Joycelyn M., 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Series:Gender and justice ; 3.
Subjects:
Women prisoners > United States > Social conditions.
Prisons > Social aspects > United States.
Women prisoners > Violence against > United States.
Women prisoners > Abuse of > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Prisons > Social aspects
Women prisoners > Social conditions
United States
american womens prisons.
conflict in womens prisons.
female inmates.
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gendered harm.
gendered violence.
human rights violations in prison.
human rights.
life in womens prison.
physical safety in womens prisons.
prison capital.
prison conditions.
prison conflict.
prison life.
prison persona.
prison violence.
prisoners rights.
violence in womens prisons.
womens pathway to prison.
womens prisons in the us.
womens prisons.
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