03635nam 22006855 450 991025526220332120240322025847.09783319636856331963685510.1007/978-3-319-63685-6(CKB)4100000001382324(DE-He213)978-3-319-63685-6(MiAaPQ)EBC5205529(PPN)222229578(Perlego)3490748(EXLCZ)99410000000138232420171219d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFemale Imprisonment An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement /by Catarina Frois1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XI, 231 p. 6 illus.) Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology,2753-06129783319636849 3319636847 Includes bibliographical references and index.This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by some people 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 being primarily a place of confinement designed to inflict punishment, but as a place of transformation, self-reconstruction, and even somewhere they can gain an awareness of the significance of their gender as part of their identity.  From interviews held in this institution, where 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 thesense 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 will be of great interest for scholars and students of penology and the criminal justice system.Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology,2753-0612CorrectionsPunishmentCrimeSociological aspectsCritical criminologyLaw and the social sciencesEthnologyPrison and PunishmentCrime and SocietyCritical CriminologySocio-Legal StudiesSociocultural AnthropologyCorrections.Punishment.CrimeSociological aspects.Critical criminology.Law and the social sciences.Ethnology.Prison and Punishment.Crime and Society.Critical Criminology.Socio-Legal Studies.Sociocultural Anthropology.365.43Frois Catarinaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut878559BOOK9910255262203321Female Imprisonment1961526UNINA