In search of safety : confronting inequality in women's imprisonment /
Owen, Barbara A.,
In search of safety : confronting inequality in women's imprisonment / Barbara Owen, James Wells, and Joycelyn Pollock. - 1 online resource - Gender and justice ; 3 . - Gender and justice ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intersectional inequality and women's imprisonment -- Pathways and intersecting inequality -- Prison community, prison conditions, and gendered harm -- Searching for safety through prison capital -- Inequalities and contextual conflict -- Intersections of inequality with correctional staff -- Gendered human rights and the search for safety.
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.
9780520963566 (ePub) 0520963563
22573/ctt1jff3td JSTOR
2016043723
Women prisoners--Social conditions.--United States
Prisons--Social aspects--United States.
Women prisoners--Violence against--United States.
Prisonnières--Conditions sociales.--États-Unis
Prisons--Aspect social--États-Unis.
Prisonnières--Violence envers--États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Criminology.
Prisons--Social aspects.
Women prisoners--Social conditions.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HV9471
365/.60820973
In search of safety : confronting inequality in women's imprisonment / Barbara Owen, James Wells, and Joycelyn Pollock. - 1 online resource - Gender and justice ; 3 . - Gender and justice ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intersectional inequality and women's imprisonment -- Pathways and intersecting inequality -- Prison community, prison conditions, and gendered harm -- Searching for safety through prison capital -- Inequalities and contextual conflict -- Intersections of inequality with correctional staff -- Gendered human rights and the search for safety.
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.
9780520963566 (ePub) 0520963563
22573/ctt1jff3td JSTOR
2016043723
Women prisoners--Social conditions.--United States
Prisons--Social aspects--United States.
Women prisoners--Violence against--United States.
Prisonnières--Conditions sociales.--États-Unis
Prisons--Aspect social--États-Unis.
Prisonnières--Violence envers--États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Criminology.
Prisons--Social aspects.
Women prisoners--Social conditions.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HV9471
365/.60820973