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1 online resource (xii, 287 pages) |
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Introduction: an ethnographic journey across states -- Limited government: training women what to need -- Deconstructing dependency: needs, rights, and the struggle for entitlement -- Hybrid states and government from a distance -- State therapeutics: training women what to want -- The empowerment myth: social vulnerability as personal pathology -- The enemies within: fighting the sisters and numbing the self -- Conclusion: states of disentitlement and the therapeutics of neoliberalism |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Female offenders -- California -- Case studies
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Female offenders -- Rehabilitation -- California -- Case studies
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Correctional institutions -- California -- Case studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Correctional institutions
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Female offenders
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Female offenders -- Rehabilitation
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Gewaltdelikt
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Strafvollzug
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Resozialisierung
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Frau
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Social Welfare & Social Work.
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Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency.
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Social Sciences.
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California
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USA
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Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520945913 |
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0520945913 |
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1282453459 |
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9781282453456 |
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9786612453458 |
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6612453451 |
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