At Work in the Iron Cage
The Prison as Gendered Organization
When most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real prisons rarely fit the &quote;Big House&quote; stereotype of popular film and literature. One fifth of all correctional officers are women, and the rate at which women are imprisoned is growing faster than that of men. Yet, despite increasing numbers of women prisoners and officers, ideas about prison life and prison work are sill dominated by an exaggerated image of men's prisons where inmates supposedly struggle for physical dominance.In a rare comparative analysis of men's and women's priso…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-2308-1
- EAN: 9780814723081
- Produktnummer: 22570852
- Verlag: NYU Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'107 KB
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