Overview
- Provides a criminological and anthropological analysis of a "safe haven" prison setting
- Offers a detailed exploration of women's lives in a facility in South Portugal, exploring inmates' detailed narratives, a focus on female confinement, and the importance of family and relationships before and after imprisonment
- Speaks to academics and professionals in Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Human Rights and Psychology
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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From in-depth ethnographic research involving close interaction with the prison population, in which 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 it will be of great interest for scholars and students of penology and the criminal justice system.
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Book Title: Female Imprisonment
Book Subtitle: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement
Authors: Catarina Frois
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63685-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63684-9Published: 17 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87614-6Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63685-6Published: 19 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 231
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Crime and Society, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Criminal Justice, Social Anthropology