Lost in translation: looking for transgender identity in women’s prisons and locating aggressors in prisoner culture

The incarceration of transgender prisoners in men’s prisons is a burgeoning topic of legal challenge, policy development, and social science inquiry. The conspicuous absence of comparable attention to women’s facilities may facilitate a tacit assumption that what is known about transgender prisoners...

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Authors: Sumner, Jennifer Macy (Author) ; Sexton, Lori (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2015
In: Critical criminology
Year: 2015, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-20
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Focus Group
Gender Identity
Gender Nonconformity
Gender Performance
Prison Environment

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