Women's Imprisonment: A Study in Social Control (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Carlen, Pat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367776359 ISBN 13: 9780367776350

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

First published in 1983, Women’s Imprisonment explores the meanings of women’s imprisonment and, in particular, the wider meanings of the ‘moment’ of prison.

Based on officially sponsored research in Cornton Vale, Scotland’s only women’s prison, the book makes extensive use of interviews with sheriffs, policemen, and social workers, as well as observation in the prisons, the courts, and the lodging-houses. The author quotes from interviews with women recidivist prisoners, the judges who send them to prison, and the agencies which assist them in between their periods of imprisonment. In doing so, questions are raised about the meanings of imprisonment and the penal disciplining of women at the time of original publication. The book also examines the changing and various meanings of imprisonment in general and the invisible nature of the social control of women in particular.

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Pat Carlen

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367776359
• ISBN 13: 9780367776350
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258