This title explores how the gender-based attitudes that women bring to prison frame how they respond to the prison environment - and how gender stereotypes continue to affect the treatment and opportunities of incarcerated women today.
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This title explores how the gender-based attitudes that women bring to prison frame how they respond to the prison environment - and how gender stereotypes continue to affect the treatment and opportunities of incarcerated women today.
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Add this copy of Woman in Prison: Gender and Social Control to cart. $23.00, good condition, Sold by Conover Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Martinsville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Lynne Rienner Pub.
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Good. 1st Printing. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. pp. 251. Ex-library with the usual library markings (if not for the library markings this copy would be graded in fine condition); overall a nice used copy! Green boards with white lettering on the front board and spine. 251 informative and historical pages! "In two decades, the number of women being held in the nation's prisons increased fivefold and at the end of 2001, 93, 031 women were in state or federal prisons, comprising 6.6 percent of the total prison population. Even though their crime rate is not increasing dramatically, women represent the fastest growing segment of imprisoned populations. The reason for the steep rise in the number of women prisoners is mainly due to the growing numbers of women prosecuted and convicted of drug offenses, the increasingly harsh sentences for drug offenses, and the lack of both treatment and community sanctions for women drug offenders...."
Add this copy of Woman in Prison: Gender and Social Control to cart. $71.12, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Lynne Rienner Pub.
