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Female Imprisonment : An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement / by Catarina Frois.
Springer Nature - Springer Law and Criminology eBooks 2017 English International Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frois, Catarina., Author.
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, 2753-0612
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corrections.
- Punishment.
- Crime--Sociological aspects.
- Crime.
- Critical criminology.
- Law and the social sciences.
- Ethnology.
- Prison and Punishment.
- Crime and Society.
- Critical Criminology.
- Socio-Legal Studies.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Local Subjects:
- Prison and Punishment.
- Crime and Society.
- Critical Criminology.
- Socio-Legal Studies.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XI, 231 p. 6 illus.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2017.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- Summary:
- This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by some people as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. Female Imprisonment results from an ethnographic study carried out in a small prison facility located in the south of Portugal, and Frois uses the data to analyze how incarcerated women talk about their lives, crimes, and expectations. Crucially, this work examines how these women consider prison: rather than being primarily a place of confinement designed to inflict punishment, but as a place of transformation, self-reconstruction, and even somewhere they can gain an awareness of the significance of their gender as part of their identity. From interviews held in this institution, where inmates present their life histories marked by poverty, violence and abuse (whether as victims, as agents, or both), Frois observes that the traditional idea of "doing time", in thesense of a strenuous, repressive, or restrictive experience, is paradoxically transformed into "having time" - an experience of expanded self-awareness, identity reconstruction, or even of deliverance. Ultimately, this engaging and compassionate study questions and defies customary accounts of the impact of prisons on those subjected to incarceration, and as such will be of great interest for scholars and students of penology and the criminal justice system.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783319636856
- 3319636855
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