1st Edition

Women's Prison Sex and Social Structure

Edited By Gene Kassebaum Copyright 1965
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

A thoroughly researched pioneering work based on personal interviews with inmates and prison personnel and on data compiled from questionnaires and inmate record files, Women's Prison reveals that homosexual liaisons are the primary foundation of the social structure of female inmates; shows that homosexual behavior can be a superficial kind of adjustment to particular situational privations;... Read more
1: The Pains of Imprisonment; 2: Female Prisoners and the “Inmate Code”; 3: The Reaction of Female Inmates to the Pains of Imprisonment; 4: The Extent of Homosexual Behavior in the Prison Setting; 5: Social-Psychological Bases of Homosexual Role Differentiation; 6: The Dynamics of Prison Homosexuality: The Course of the Love Affair; 7: The Dynamics of Prison Homosexuality: The Character of the Love Affair; 8: Some Implications of the Homosexual Adaptation for Prison Staff

Biography

Gene Kassebaum