Partial Justice
Women, Prisons and Social Control
Contemporary Research on crime, prisons, and social control has largely ignored women. Partial Justice, the only full-scale study of the origins and development of women's prisons in the United States, traces their evolution from the late eighteenth century to the present day. It shows that the character of penal treatment was involved in the very definition of womanhood for incarcerated women, a definition that varied by race and social class. Rafter traces the evolution of women's prisons, showing that it followed two markedly different models. Custodial institutions for women literally grew out of men's penitentiaries, starting from a sep…
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- ISBN: 978-0-88738-826-2
- EAN: 9780887388262
- Produktnummer: 1797593
- Verlag: Taylor and Francis
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
- Seitenangabe: 322 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 600 g
- Auflage: 2. A.
- Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
- Gewicht: 600
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