Marking time in the Golden State : women's imprisonment in California / Candace Kruttschnitt, Rosemary Gartner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kruttschnitt, Candace, author.

Gartner, Rosemary, 1952- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in criminology.

Cambridge studies in criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women prisoners--California.

Women prisoners.

Female offenders--California.

Female offenders.

Criminal justice, Administration of--California.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent decades, the nature of criminal punishment has undergone change in the United States. This case study of women serving time in California in the 1960s and 1990s examines key points in this recent history. In this 2005 book, the authors begin with a look at imprisonment at the California Institution for Women in the early 1960s, when the rehabilitative model dominated official discourse. They compare women's experiences in the 1990s, at the California Institution for Women and the Valley State Prison, when the recent 'get tough' era was near its peak. Drawing on archival data, interviews, and surveys, their analysis considers the relationships among official philosophies and practices of imprisonment, women's responses to the prison regime, and relations between women prisoners. The experiences of women prisoners reflected the transformations Americans have witnessed in punishment over recent decades, but they also mirrored the deprivations and restrictions of imprisonment.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Marking Time in the Golden State; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; CHAPTER TWO Women, Crime, and Punishment in California; CHAPTER THREE Entering the Prisons: Methods; CHAPTER FOUR Women's Experiences of Imprisonment at the California Institution for Women in the 1960s and the 1990s; CHAPTER FIVE Variations across Time and Place in Women's Prison Experiences; CHAPTER SIX Negotiating Prison Life: How Women ""Did Time"" in the Punitive Era of the 1990s

CHAPTER SEVEN Conclusion: The Spectrum of Women Prisoners ExperiencesAPPENDIX Characteristics of Interviewees; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-187) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13769-1

1-280-43107-5

0-511-17054-8

0-511-20642-9

0-511-08115-4

0-511-29764-5

0-511-61403-9

0-511-08039-5

OCLC:

437146065