RT Book
T1 In search of safety: confronting inequality in women's imprisonment
T2 Gender and justice
A1 Owen, Barbara A.
A2 Wells, James
A2 Pollock, Joycelyn M. 1956-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1734597453
AB Intersectional inequality and women's imprisonment -- Pathways and intersecting inequality -- Prison community, prison conditions, and gendered harm -- Searching for safety through prison capital -- Inequalities and contextual conflict -- Intersections of inequality with correctional staff -- Gendered human rights and the search for safety.
AB 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 negotiate these inequities by developing forms of prison capital-social, human, cultural, emotional, and economic-to ensure their safety while inside. The authors also analyze how conflict and subsequent violence result from human-rights violations inside the prison that occur within the gendered context of
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV9471
SN 0520963563
SN 9780520963566
K1 Women Prisoners : United States : Social conditions
K1 Prisons : Social aspects : United States
K1 Women Prisoners : Violence against : United States
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Penology
K1 Social Science ; Criminology
K1 Prisons ; Social aspects
K1 Women prisoners ; Social conditions
K1 United States
K1 USA : Weibliche Gefangene : Soziale Situation : Ungleichheit
K1 USA : Frauenstrafvollzug : Weibliche Gefangene : Soziale Situation : Ungleichheit
K1 eBook-EBSCO-eBook-Academic-Collection