322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
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Contemporary Research on crime, prisons, and social control has largely ignored women. Partial Justice, the only full-scale study of the origins and development of women's prisons in the United States, traces their evolution from the late eighteenth century to the present day. It shows that the character of penal treatment was involved in the very definition of womanhood for incarcerated women, a... Read more
I: Development of the Women’s Prison System; 1: “Much and Unfortunately Neglected”: Women in Early and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Prisons; 2: Origins of the Women’s Reformatory, 1870–1900; 3: The Women’s Reformatory Movement, 1900–1935: From Success to Decline; 4: Custodial Prisons For Women, 1870–1935; II: The Implementation of Punishment; Introduction; 5: Conviction Offenses, Sentences, and Prisoners at Five Institutions; 6: Race and Racism in State Prisons Holding Women, 1865–1935; 7: The Realization of Partial Justice: A Case Study of The Social Control of Women; 8: The Third Stage: The Women’s Prison System Since 1935; III: Gender and Justice; 9: Sex Discrimination in the Prison System: New Responses to the Perennial Problem
Biography
Nicole Rafter
