Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire

by Lynne Haney (Author), Lynne Haney (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $39.57

  Presents a journey into the lived reality of prison for women in the United States. This book uncovers the complex gendered under-pinning of methods of control and intervention used in the criminal justice system and links that system to discussions on contemporary government and state power and asks why these strategies have risen.