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1 online resource (210 pages) |
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Advances in Criminology ; v. 6 |
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Advances in criminology.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Map of the Women's Penal Establishments in England and Wales -- Introduction Agency and Power in Women's Prisons: An Overview -- Identity Politics: A New Approach for Criminology? -- An Outline of the Chapters -- Identity and Agency: Encouraging Expressions of Resistance -- 1 Reading the Prison: A Review of the Literature -- The Origins of the Prison: Freedom vs. Responsibility -- Punishment, Discipline and Modern Society -- The Founding Fathers: Importation/Deprivation -- The 'Community' of Women: Importation, Deprivation or Inadequacy? -- Disciplining Women: Sociology and Autobiography -- Feminism and Critique: Social Theory -- The Current 'Crisis' in Prison Studies: Questions of Legitimacy -- Implications of Re-viewing the Literature: New Directions? -- 2 Re-evaluating Difference: The Gender of Justice, Care and Power -- The Legitimacy of Power and Punishment -- Custody, Security and Justice: Balancing Imprisonment -- Justice and Legitimate Expectations -- The Injustice of Security? -- On the Limitations of Justice, Rights and Equality for Women -- Meeting the Needs of Women in Prison: An Ethics of Care or Paternalism? -- Evaluating Women's Imprisonment: Engendering Justice -- Conclusion: Problematizing Consent, or Legitimate for Whom? -- 3 Towards Legitimate Research Methods, or Working 'by, on, for' and with Women -- Do Feminist Research Methods Exist? -- The Tyranny of Intimacy -- Doing Time -- Inside a Total Institution: Environmental Factors -- Breaking In, or Whose Side Are We On? -- Justifying My Techniques: Towards Legitimate Research Methods -- Subjectivity, Agency and Identity: The Postmodern Turn -- Understanding and Interpreting Prisons: Is There a Method? |
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4 Gender, Identity and the Prison: Punishing Their Bodies, Punishing Their Selves -- The 'Politics of Identity': An Overview -- Reconfiguring 'Woman': Agency and Subjectivity -- Institutional Constraints: Regulation of the Autonomous Self -- Identity and the 'Problem of Order' -- Narratives of Identity -- Race, Class and Gender: Identity Formation Through Intersection -- Women in Prison: Beyond a Community of Victims -- 5 Voices of Agency, Voices of Resistance: Negotiating Power Relations in Prison -- Agency and Resistance: Some Definitions -- Freedom of Choice: Conflicting Accounts -- Contingent Choices: Towards an Appreciation of Difference -- Order and Compliance in Women's Prisons: Constituting Agency and Resistance -- Resisting Identities: Strategies of Change -- Reconfiguring Identity: Femininity as Resistance -- Femininity as Resistance: Repoliticizing Prison Studies -- Resisting Imprisonment: Some Conclusions -- Conclusion Women's Imprisonment: Conclusions and New Directions -- Resisting Identities: Formulating a Gendered Understanding of Power -- The Paradox of Resistance: New Directions? -- Towards a New Criminological Imagination -- Appendix -- References -- Index |
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Print version record |
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Women prisoners -- Research -- England
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Women prisoners -- England -- Psychology
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Women prisoners -- Civil rights -- England
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Prison administration -- England
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Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- England
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Prisons -- Government policy -- England
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Prison administration
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Prisons -- Government policy
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Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
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Women prisoners -- Civil rights
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Women prisoners -- Psychology
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England
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781840147391 |
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1840147393 |
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9781351940214 |
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135194021X |
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