Sledgehammer: Women's Imprisonment at the Millennium - Softcover

Carlen, P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333746066 ISBN 13: 9780333746066

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

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Pat Carlen's compelling and compassionate analysis of the penal control of women at the end of the twentieth century is based on new research completed in 1997. She develops many of the themes of previous work, while introducing new concepts such as 'gender-testing', and 'ameliorative justice'. Skilfully and vividly presenting the words and views of both staff and inmates of the women's prisons, Carlen presents a powerful case for both a quantitative and qualitative reduction in women's imprisonment.

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PAT CARLEN is a founder member of the campaigning group Women In Prison, she is presently Professor of Sociology at Bath University and before that was Professor of Criminology at the University of Keele where she founded, and was Head of the Department of Criminology. This is her fourteenth book discussing the relationships between social and criminal justice in general and her fifth on women, crime and imprisonment. Chief amongst the others are Women's Imprisonment 1983, Women, Crime and Poverty, 1988, and Alternatives to Women's Imprisonment 1990. Other books have been on the sociology of law, official discourse, truancy, sentencing, and magistrates' courts. In 1996 she published Jigsaw: A Political Criminology of Youth Homelessness.

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0333746066
• ISBN 13: 9780333746066
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196
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