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Paperback Partial Justice: Women, Prisons and Social Control Book

ISBN: 0887388264

ISBN13: 9780887388262

Partial Justice: Women, Prisons and Social Control

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Contemporary Research on crime, prisons, and social control has largely ignored women. Partial Justice, the only full-scale study of the origins and development of women's prisons in the United States, traces their evolution from the late eighteenth century to the present day. It shows that the character of penal treatment was involved in the very definition of womanhood for incarcerated women, a definition that varied by race and social class.Rafter...

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