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Female Imprisonment - An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017) Loot Price: R4,693
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Female Imprisonment - An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Catarina Frois

Female Imprisonment - An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

Catarina Frois

Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology

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This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by prison inmates as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. Female Imprisonment results from an ethnographic study carried out in a small prison facility located in the south of Portugal, and Frois uses the data to analyze how incarcerated women talk about their lives, crimes, and expectations. Crucially, this work examines how these women consider prison: rather than primarily being a place of confinement designed to inflict punishment, it can equally be a place of transformation that enables them to regain a sense of selfhood. From in-depth ethnographic research involving close interaction with the prison population, in which inmates present their life histories marked by poverty, violence, and abuse (whether as victims, as agents, or both), Frois observes that the traditional idea of "doing time", in the sense of a strenuous, repressive, or restrictive experience, is paradoxically transformed into "having time" - an experience of expanded self-awareness, identity reconstruction, or even of deliverance. Ultimately, this engaging and compassionate study questions and defies customary accounts of the impact of prisons on those subjected to incarceration, and as such it will be of great interest for scholars and students of penology and the criminal justice system.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
Release date: 2018
First published: 2017
Authors: Catarina Frois
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 231
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-63684-9
Categories: Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Criminal law
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > Prisons
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LSN: 3-319-63684-7
Barcode: 9783319636849

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