Women at the Wall: A Study of Prisoners' Wives Doing Time on the Outside
(Part of the SUNY Series in Critical Issues in Criminal Justice Series)
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Women at the Wall is the first ethnographic study of how the arrest, trial, imprisonment, and release of male criminals affects their families, particularly their wives. It relies on first-person accounts by prisoners' wives, providing details about the changing texture of their marital relationships and the accompanying stigmatization.
From this book we learn about the effects of enforced spousal separation, and the control husbands maintain...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:079140059X
ISBN13:9780791400593
Release Date:May 1990
Publisher:State University of New York Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.1" x 9.1"
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