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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lempert, Lora Bex
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women prisoners.
Life imprisonment.
Imprisonment.
Female offenders.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Justice penale > Administration > États-Unis.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
Criminelles > États-Unis.
Reclusion à perpetuite > États-Unis.
Prisonnieres > États-Unis.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
Female offenders > United States.
Life imprisonment > United States.
Women prisoners > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The life imprisonment of women in America: gender, punishment, and agency
  • Carmela: "blurred boundaries"
  • Beginning the prison journey
  • Ann and Crystal: juvenile lifers as "minnows in a shark tank"
  • Actively doing life
  • Desiree: a journey toward self-actualization
  • Correctional officers or "us" vs. "them": preserving and challenging the binary
  • Eating the life-sentence elephant: "one day at a time"
  • Candace: "God is my answer"
  • The way forward: policy solutions.

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