Women Behind Bars

Women Behind Bars
Author: Silja Talvi
Publisher: Seal Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2007-11-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1580051952
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An award-winning investigative journalist examines increasing rates of women imprisonment in today's America, in a report that draws on interviews with inmates, correctional officers, and administrators to offer insight into the societal impact of female incarceration. Original.


Women Behind Bars
Language: en
Pages: 386

Women Behind Bars

Authors: Silja Talvi
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-11-02 - Publisher: Seal Press

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An award-winning investigative journalist examines increasing rates of women imprisonment in today's America, in a report that draws on interviews with inmates,
Women and Prison
Language: en
Pages: 178

Women and Prison

Authors: Jada Hector
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-22 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This edited volume presents research about life in prison for women, discussing both incarcerated women and those working in prisons. It addresses women’s pat
Women in Prison
Language: en
Pages: 268

Women in Prison

Authors: Barbara H. Zaitzow
Categories: Sex role
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

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It is old news that the conditions and policies of women's prisons are different from those for incarcerated men. Less evident, however, is how gender differenc
The Women's House of Detention
Language: en
Pages: 375

The Women's House of Detention

Authors: Hugh Ryan
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-10 - Publisher: Bold Type Books

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This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twent
Incarcerated Women
Language: en
Pages: 204

Incarcerated Women

Authors: Erica Rhodes Hayden
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-06 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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The story of the rise of prisons and development of prison systems in the United States has been studied extensively in scholarship, but the experiences of fema