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Female imprisonment = an ethnography of everyday life in confinement /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Female imprisonment/ by Catarina Frois.
Reminder of title:	an ethnography of everyday life in confinement /
Author:	Frois, Catarina.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	xi, 231 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Women prisoners - Social aspects. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63685-6
ISBN:	9783319636856

Female imprisonment = an ethnography of everyday life in confinement /
Frois, Catarina.

Female imprisonmentan ethnography of everyday life in confinement /[electronic resource] :by Catarina Frois. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xi, 231 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in prisons and penology. - Palgrave studies in prisons and penology..

This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by some people as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. Female Imprisonment results from an ethnographic study carried out in a small prison facility located in the south of Portugal, and Frois uses the data to analyze how incarcerated women talk about their lives, crimes, and expectations. Crucially, this work examines how these women consider prison: rather than being primarily a place of confinement designed to inflict punishment, but as a place of transformation, self-reconstruction, and even somewhere they can gain an awareness of the significance of their gender as part of their identity. From interviews held in this institution, where inmates present their life histories marked by poverty, violence and abuse (whether as victims, as agents, or both), Frois observes that the traditional idea of "doing time", in the sense of a strenuous, repressive, or restrictive experience, is paradoxically transformed into "having time" - an experience of expanded self-awareness, identity reconstruction, or even of deliverance. Ultimately, this engaging and compassionate study questions and defies customary accounts of the impact of prisons on those subjected to incarceration, and as such will be of great interest for scholars and students of penology and the criminal justice system.

ISBN: 9783319636856

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-63685-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1197979
Women prisoners
--Social aspects.

LC Class. No.: HV8738

Dewey Class. No.: 365.43

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