Women doing life : gender, punishment, and the struggle for identity /

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How do women -- mothers, daughters, aunts, nieces and grandmothers -- make sense of judgment to a lifetime behind bars? In Women Doing Life, Lora Bex Lempert examines the carceral experiences of women serving life sentences, presenting a typology of the ways that life-sentenced women grow and self-a...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lempert, Lora Bex
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Women prisoners > United States.
Life imprisonment > United States.
Female offenders > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Prisonnières > États-Unis.
Réclusion à perpétuité > États-Unis.
Criminelles > États-Unis.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
Justice pénale > Administration > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Female offenders
Imprisonment
Life imprisonment
Women prisoners
United States
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