Female Imprisonment [[electronic resource] ] : An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement / / by Catarina Frois

• Autore: Frois Catarina
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2017.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 231 p. 6 illus.)
• Disciplina: 365.43
• Soggetto topico: Corrections; Punishment; Crime—Sociological aspects; Critical criminology; Criminal justice, Administration of; Ethnology; Prison and Punishment; Crime and Society; Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime; Criminal Justice; Social Anthropology
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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 will be of great interest for scholars and students of penology and the criminal justice system.
• Titolo autorizzato: Female Imprisonment
• ISBN: 3-319-63685-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255262203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology