RT Article
T1 Playing the Part: Pseudo-Families, Wives, and the Politics of Relationships in Women’s Prisons in California
JF The prison journal
VO 98
IS 6
SP 678
OP 699
A1 Kolb, Abigail
A1 Palys, Ted S.
A2 Palys, Ted S.
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1742341926
AB At present, little is known regarding the experience and activities of gang-affiliated women in prison. This article is based on interviews with 15 formerly incarcerated women who offered insights into their experiences. Rather than continue the territorially based street divisions they defended, the women tended, instead, to create interpersonal units in the form of families and/or sexual dyads, reconstructing hetero-normative relational patterns during the course of their incarceration. The article offers an alternative lens through which to understand human agency among incarcerated women.
K1 Agency
K1 Gang-affiliated women offenders
K1 Prison pseudo-families
DO 10.1177/0032885518811809