书目名称 | Female Imprisonment | 副标题 | An Ethnography of Ev | 编辑 | Catarina Frois | 视频video | | 概述 | Provides a criminological and anthropological analysis of a "safe haven" prison setting.Offers a detailed exploration of women‘s lives in a facility in South Portugal, exploring inmates‘ detailed narr | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by prison inmates as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. .Female Imprisonment. results from an ethnographic study carried out in a small prison facility located in the south of Portugal, and Frois uses the data to analyze how incarcerated women talk about their lives, crimes, and expectations. Crucially, this work examines how these women consider prison: rather than primarily being a place of confinement designed to inflict punishment, it can equally be a place of transformation that enables them to regain a sense of selfhood.. .From in-depth ethnographic research involving close interaction with the prison population, in which inmates present their life histories marked by poverty, violence, and abuse (whether as victims, as agents, or both), Frois observes that the traditional idea of “doing time”, in the sense of a strenuous, repressive, or restrictive experience, is paradoxically transformed into “having time” – an experience of expanded self-awareness, identity reconstruction, or even of deliverance. Ultimately, this engaging and | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | 关键词 | Anthropology of Crime; Anthropology of Identity; Crime and Identity; Purposes for Confinement; Meanings | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63685-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-87614-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-63685-6Series ISSN 2753-0604 Series E-ISSN 2753-0612 | issn_series | 2753-0604 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |
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