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Record Nr.

UNINA9910156243103321

Autore

Owen Barbara

Titolo

In search of safety : confronting inequality in women's imprisonment / / Barbara Owen, James Wells, Joycelyn Pollock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-520-96356-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 pages)

Collana

Gender and Justice ; ; 3

Disciplina

365/.60820973

Soggetti

Women prisoners - United States - Social conditions

Prisons - Social aspects - United States

Women prisoners - Violence against - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Intersectional Inequality and Women's Imprisonment -- 2. Pathways and Intersecting Inequality -- 3. Prison Community, Prison Conditions, and Gendered Harm -- 4. Searching for Safety through Prison Capital -- 5. Inequalities and Contextual Conflict -- 6. Intersections of Inequality with Correctional Staff -- 7. Gendered Human Rights and the Search for Safety -- Appendix 1: Methodology -- Appendix 2: Tables of Findings -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Search of Safety takes a close look at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women's prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantages are at the root of prison conflict and violence and mirror the women's pathways to prison. Women must negotiate these inequities by developing forms of prison capital-social, human, cultural, emotional, and economic-to ensure their safety while inside. The authors also analyze how conflict and subsequent violence result from human-rights violations inside the prison that occur within the gendered context of substandard prison conditions, inequalities of capital among those imprisoned, and relationships with correctional staff. In Search of Safety proposes a way



forward-the implementation of international human-rights standards for U.S. prisons.