Offending women : power, punishment, and the regulation of desire

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Label

Offending women : power, punishment, and the regulation of desire

Title remainder

power, punishment, and the regulation of desire

Statement of responsibility

Lynne A. Haney

Creator

• Haney, Lynne A., (Lynne Allison), 1967-

Author

• Haney, Lynne A., (Lynne Allison), 1967-

Subject

• Correctional institutions
• Correctional institutions -- California -- Case studies
• Electronic books
• Female offenders
• Female offenders -- California -- Case studies
• Female offenders -- Rehabilitation
• Female offenders -- Rehabilitation -- California -- Case studies
• Frau
• California
• Resozialisierung
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology
• Strafvollzug
• USA
• Gewaltdelikt
• Case studies

Genre

• Electronic books
• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

Offending Women is an eye-opening journey into the lived reality of prison for women in the United States today. Lynne Haney looks at incarcerated mothers, housed together with their children, who are serving terms in alternative, community-based prisons-a type of facility that is becoming increasingly widespread. Incorporating vivid, sometimes shocking observations of daily life, she probes the dynamics of power over women's minds and bodies that play out in two such institutions in California. She finds that these "alternative" prisons, contrary to their aims, often end up disempowering wome

Cataloging source

N$T

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography