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Item Details
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RECONSTRUCTING A WOMEN'S PRISON
THE HOLLOWAY REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT, 1968-88 |
| By: |
Paul Rock |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£86.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198260954 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198260950 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
23 May, 1996 |
| Series: |
Clarendon Studies in Criminology |
| Pages: |
378 |
| Description: |
Holloway Prison for Women was rebuilt in the expectation that it would revolutionize the treatment of female offenders. However, the new regime housed in the new building became notorious. Reconstructing a Women's Prison describes the changes in penal ideology and conceptions of women's criminality as they fed into the design of this new prison in the 1970s and 80s. |
| Synopsis: |
The rebuilding of Holloway prison announced in 1968 was intended to be of enormous significance for the treatment and therapeutic rehabilitation of female inmates. Reconstruction began in 1970 but the new prison was not completed until 1985. By this time penal ideologies had changed, and the Prison Department had revised its conception of female criminality. Thus, what was intended to be a new therapeutic prison became a place of conventional discipline and containment. These developments created serious problems within the prison and led to Holloway being identified as a public and political scandal. Using original documents and extensive interviews, the author traces the genesis and consequences of the decision to rebuild England's major prison for women, and shows how the experience at Holloway reflects shifting attitudes towards female criminals, and the relationships among penal ideology, architecture, control, and behaviour in a penal institution. |
| Illustrations: |
halftones, line figures |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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