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IN SEARCH OF SAFETY
CONFRONTING INEQUALITY IN WOMEN'S IMPRISONMENT |
| By: |
Barbara Owen, James Wells, Joycelyn M. Pollock |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0520288726 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780520288720 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
24 January, 2017 |
| Series: |
Gender and Justice 3 |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Description: |
Looks at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women's prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantage are at the root of prison conflict and violence, reflecting the women's pathways to prison. |
| Synopsis: |
In Search of Safety takes a close look at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women's prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantages are at the root of prison conflict and violence and mirror the women's pathways to prison. Women must negotiate these inequities by developing forms of prison capital-social, human, cultural, emotional, and economic-to ensure their safety while inside. The authors also analyze how conflict and subsequent violence result from human-rights violations inside the prison that occur within the gendered context of substandard prison conditions, inequalities of capital among those imprisoned, and relationships with correctional staff. In Search of Safety proposes a way forward-the implementation of international human-rights standards for U.S. prisons. |
| Illustrations: |
14 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of California Press |
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Returnable |