Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research from around the world, this book brings together renowned international scholars to explore life-course perspec

"Striking, original, and stimulating. Even readers with extensive familiarity of the literature regarding women in prison will learn something new."--Mona Danne

The story of the rise of prisons and development of prison systems in the United States has been studied extensively in scholarship, but the experiences of fema

People in U.S. prisons are routinely subjected to physical, sexual, and mental abuse. While this has been documented in male prisons, women in prison often suff

Interviews with African American women in prison.