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Marking time in the Golden State : women's imprisonment in California /
"In recent decades, the nature of criminal punishment has undergone profound change in the United States. This case study of women serving time in California in the 1960s and 1990s examines two key points in this recent history. The authors begin with a look at imprisonment at the California In...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in criminology (Cambridge University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In recent decades, the nature of criminal punishment has undergone profound change in the United States. This case study of women serving time in California in the 1960s and 1990s examines two key points in this recent history. The authors begin with a look at imprisonment at the California Institution for Women in the early 1960s, when the rehabilitative model dominated official discourse. To this they compare women's experiences in the 1990s, at bot the California Institution for Women and the Valley State Prison for Women, when the recent "get tough" era was near its peak. Drawing on archival data. interviews, and surveys, their analysis considers the relationships among official philosophies and practices of imprisonment, women's responses to the prison regime, and relations between women prisoners. The experiences of women prisoners reflected the transformations Americans have witnessed in punishment over recent decades, but they also mirrored the deprivations and restrictions of imprisonment that seem to transcend time and place."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511081154 9780511081156 9780511614033 0511614039 9780511080395 0511080395 1280431075 9781280431074 9786610431076 6610431078 1107137691 9781107137691 0511170548 9780511170546 0511206429 9780511206429 0511297645 9780511297649 |