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Women doing life : gender, punishment, and the struggle for identity

Lempert, Lora Bex, author

Overview

\"In Women Doing Life, Lora Bex Lempert examines the carceral experiences of women serving life sentences, presenting a typology of the ways that life-sentenced women grow and self-actualize, resist prison definitions, reflect on and own their criminal acts, and ultimately create meaningful lives behind prison walls. Looking beyond the explosive headlines that often characterize these women as monsters, Lempert offers rare insight into this vulnerable, little studied population. Her gendered analysis considers the ways that women do crime differently than men and how they have qualitatively different experiences of imprisonment than their male counterparts.\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: New York University Press
• Subject: Women prisoners United States. / Life imprisonment United States. / Female offenders United States. / Imprisonment United States. / Criminal justice, Administration of United States.
• ISBN: 9781479866038, 1479866032, 9781479827053, 1479827053

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HV9471.L436 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE