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Older women in the criminal justice system : running out of time / Azrini Wahidin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wahidin, Azrini, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older offenders--Great Britain.
- Older offenders.
- Older prisoners--Great Britain.
- Older prisoners.
- Women prisoners--Great Britain.
- Women prisoners.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What is life like for the women who grow old behind bars? Azrini Wahidin examines in-depth the experiences and needs of this overlooked group. Illuminating reading for all those working in the prison services, probation, and the courts, Older Women in the Criminal Justice System offers a rare view of what happens to women who grow old in prison.
- Contents:
- Women and the criminal justice system : discipline and punish
- From court to prison : women on the edge of time
- Prison life : now you see me now you don't
- Running out of time
- Healthcare and the cost of imprisonment
- Within these walls : older women in custody
- Forget me not : older women in the criminal justice system
- Concluding comments : responses to ageing - women in the criminal justice system.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-26220-6
- 9786610262205
- 1-4237-1026-6
- 1-84642-075-X
- OCLC:
- 567972161
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