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Gender, geography, and punishment : the experience of women in carceral Russia / Judith Pallot and Laura Piacentini ; with the assistance of Dominique Moran.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pallot, Judith.
- Series:
- Oxford geographical and environmental studies.
- Oxford geographical and environmental studies
- Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women prisoners--Russia (Federation).
- Women prisoners.
- Women political prisoners--Russia (Federation).
- Women political prisoners.
- Women prisoners--Russia.
- Women political prisoners--Russia.
- Women prisoners--Soviet Union.
- Women political prisoners--Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is the first of its kind that brings together human geography and the sociology of punishment to explore the relationship between distance and the punishment in contemporary Russia. Using established penological and geographical theories, the book presents in-depth empirical research to show how the experiences of women prisoners are shaped by the distances that the Russian penal service sends prisoners to serve their sentences. Its most eye-catching feature is its use ofinterviews conducted by the authors and their research team with adult and juvenile women prisoners, ex-prisoners
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Space and place in Russia's system of penality
- pt. 2. Women prisoners' experiences of carceral Russia.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-64391-X
- 0-19-163320-8
- OCLC:
- 813528973
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