‘The right way to be a woman’: negotiating femininity in a prison-based drug treatment programme

Drawing from an ethnographic study in a drug treatment wing for women in a Danish prison, the authors explore how femininity is negotiated between prisoners and staff. It is shown how the staff view the prisoners as both passive and disruptive and how the treatment aims to teach them what staff cons...

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Main Author: Kolind, Torsten (Author)
Contributors: Bjønness, Jeanett
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Punishment & society
Year: 2019, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 107-124
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