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'...an excellent and important book...Pat Carlen's hope for change before the dawn of the new millennium has not been met but thanks to her spirited, scholarly and relentless challenge to the current system we may continue to hope that one day soon we will see an end to the sledgehammer of a system of women's imprisonment; and that, in its place, we will witness the birth of a more holistic, women-wise response to girls and women in criminal trouble.' - Penny Green, British Journal of Criminology
'Sledgehammer has a significance beyond itself. At one level it is straightforwardly a criminology book and if there were prizes for the best such book in a given year, this deserves to win, hands down. But it is also a state-of-the-nation book, aptly offered for reflection on the eve of the Millennium, which says something rather sombre about the kind of country we have become...It makes its case so well that it is hard to imagine any reader not being stirred to action.' - Mike Nellis, University of Birmingham
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Book Title: Sledgehammer
Book Subtitle: Women’s Imprisonment at the Millennium
Authors: Pat Carlen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375352
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Pat Carlen 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-74606-6Published: 13 September 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37535-2Published: 13 September 1998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 180
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Urban Studies/Sociology, Gender Studies, Law, general