Doing Time on the Outside : : Deconstructing the Benevolent Community / / MaDonna R. Maidment.

Criminalized women are the focus of great interest in contemporary sociological research all over the world, however much of the growing body of work in this area has focused on the prison. Considerably less attention has been paid to women serving their sentences in the community.Doing Time on the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2006
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Penal Controls on Criminalized Women
  • 2. Sociopolitical Context of Criminalizing Women
  • 3. Stumbling Blocks to 'Corrections' Research
  • 4. Getting In: Pathways to Prison
  • 5. Doing Time on the Inside: Prisoning of Women
  • 6. Getting Out: Immediate and Measurable Transitions
  • 7. State and Localized Controls
  • Conclusion: Where to From Here?
  • Appendix: Research Guide
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index