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

• Autore: Owen Barbara
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 pages)
• Disciplina: 365/.60820973
• Soggetto topico: Women prisoners - United States - Social conditions; Prisons - Social aspects - United States; Women prisoners - Violence against - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): PollockJoycelyn; WellsJames
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: In Search of Safety
• ISBN: 0-520-96356-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910156243103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Gender and justice (University of California Press)