In Search of Safety: Confronting Inequality in Women's Imprisonment (Gender and Justice) (Volume 3)

In Search of Safety: Confronting Inequality in Women's Imprisonment (Gender and Justice) (Volume 3) image
ISBN-10:

0520288726

ISBN-13:

9780520288720

Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 24, 2017
Format: Paperback, 274 pages
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Description:

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 substandard prison conditions, inequalities of capital among those imprisoned, and relationships with correctional staff. In Search of Safety proposes a way forward—the implementation of international human-rights standards for U.S. prisons.



























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