Lives of Incarcerated Women - 9781138803718

Taylor & Francis

Lives of Incarcerated WomenAn international perspective\nAuthor(s): Candace Kruttschnitt, Catrien Bijleveld\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138803718, 978-1138803718\nSynopsis\nDrawing on qualitative and quantitative research from around the world, this book brings together renowned international scholars to explore life-course perspectives on womens imprisonment. Instead of covering only one aspect of womens carceral experiences, this book offers a broader perspective that encompasses womens pathways to prison, their prison experiences and the effects of these experiences on their childrens well-being, as well as their subsequent chances of desisting from [url] perspectives from the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Scotland, the United States, Ukraine and Sri Lanka, this book uncovers the similarities across time and space in women offenders life histories and those of their children and examines the differences .