LEADER 04430nam 2200661 450 001 9910807641603321 005 20230612051718.0 010 $a1-4426-5611-5 010 $a1-4426-2354-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442623545 035 $a(CKB)3710000000329313 035 $a(EBL)3296889 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001420508 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12531533 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420508 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11404013 035 $a(PQKB)11085712 035 $a(DE-B1597)465668 035 $a(OCoLC)944178866 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442623545 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4670088 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256602 035 $a(OCoLC)958571229 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4670088 035 $a(OCoLC)903968254 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107015 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000329313 100 $a20160922h19951995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVoices from within $ewomen who have broken the law /$fEvelyn K. Sommers ; foreword by Paula J. Capalan 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1995. 210 4$dİ1995 215 $a1 online resource (180 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-7449-9 311 $a0-8020-2998-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWomen knowing; knowing women -- From separation to connection -- The women's words : need -- The women's words : disconnection and the influence of others -- The women's words : visible anger -- The women's words : fear -- Relationship, empowerment, and lawbreaking -- Reconceptualizing women's lawbreaking. 330 $aWomen in conflict with the law have their own ideas about why and how they became law breakers. Experts tell us who these women are and why they break the law, usually igonroing of discrediting the opinions of the women themselves. As a counselling and research intern in a women's medium-security prison, Evelyn K. Sommers heard the stories of dozens of women inmates who came for counselling. Their crimes were related to prostitution, drug abuse, theft, physical abuse, assault, and arson. Most of the women had been imprisoned several times before. Their stories called into question existing theoretical explanations for criminal behaviour as well as the explanations commonly heard in the day-to-day discourse of the prison. Sommers came to the conclusion that attempts to help women in conflict with the law can be effective only if they take into account the women's understanding of what happened to them in the course of their lifetime. She resolved to conduct intensive interviewa with fourteen women and to find the common threads in their stories, threads that might prove useful in furthering our understanding of women's conflicts with the law.Sommers presents the women's accounts of their actions, thoughts, and feelings, without excusing, condemning them, and without moulding their explanations for their behaviour to some ideological model. Four common reasons or themes emergedfrom the women's accounts: need; disconnection and the influence of others, visible anger; and fear. Further analysis uncovered two implicit underlying themes that were present in all of the women's stories; namely, the centrality of relationships in their lives and their personal quest for empowerment. Voices from Within demonstrates the importance of conducting separate studies of male and female lawbreakers including women as a focus of study; of relying on subjective perspectives to distinguish amd appropriately address differences inherent in the criminal population; and of reconceptualizing of the notion of motivation. Sommers concludes with suggestions for further research, and for practical approaches to working with lawbreakers. 606 $aFemale offenders$vCase studies 608 $aCase studies. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFemale offenders 676 $a364.3/74 700 $aSommers$b Evelyn K$g(Evelyn Kathleen),$01662767 701 $aCaplan$b Paula$01662768 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807641603321 996 $aVoices from within$94019666 997 $aUNINA