In search of safety : confronting inequality in women's imprisonment / Barbara Owen, James Wells, Joycelyn Pollock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owen, Barbara, author.

Pollock, Joycelyn, author.

Wells, James, author.

Series:

Gender and justice (University of California Press)

Gender and Justice ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women prisoners--United States--Social conditions.

Women prisoners.

Prisons--Social aspects--United States.

Prisons.

Women prisoners--Violence against--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Intersectional Inequality and Women's Imprisonment

2. Pathways and Intersecting Inequality

3. Prison Community, Prison Conditions, and Gendered Harm

4. Searching for Safety through Prison Capital

5. Inequalities and Contextual Conflict

6. Intersections of Inequality with Correctional Staff

7. Gendered Human Rights and the Search for Safety

Appendix 1: Methodology

Appendix 2: Tables of Findings

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520963566

0520963563

OCLC:

959080879