Intersectional inequality and women's imprisonment -- Pathways and intersecting inequality -- Prison community, prison conditions, and gendered harm -- Searching for safety through prison capital -- Inequalities and contextual conflict -- Intersections of inequality with correctional staff -- Gendered human rights and the search for safety.
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In Search of Safety takes a close look at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women's prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantages are at the root of prison conflict and violence and mirror the women's pathways to prison. Women must negotiate these inequities by developing forms of prison capital-social, human, cultural, emotional, and economic-to ensure their safety while inside. The authors also analyze how conflict and subsequent violence result from human-rights violations inside the prison that occur within the gendered context of.
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JSTOR
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22573/ctt1jff3td
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Title
In search of safety.
International Standard Book Number
9780520288713
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Prisons-- Social aspects-- United States.
Women prisoners-- United States-- Social conditions.
Women prisoners-- Violence against-- United States.