Female Imprisonment

An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement

Catarina Frois (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XI, 231 Seiten

2019 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-87614-6 (ISBN)

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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 compassionate study questions and defies customary accounts of the impact of prisons on those subjected to incarceration, and as such it will be of great interest for scholars and students of penology and the criminal justice system.

Catarina Frois is Senior Researcher at the Center for Research in Anthropology and Invited Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal.

Chapter 1.Introduction. A "Doll's House".- Chapter 2. Portugal, a "Mild-Mannered" Country. Penal and Penitentiary Overview.- Chapter 3. Entering Odemira Prison Facility.- Chapter 4. 'Will You Be Back Again Tomorrow?'.- Chapter 5. The Effects of Imprisonment.- Chapter 6. Tension, Authority, Rights.- Chapter 7. The Rule, the Letter, the Spirit of the Law.- Chapter 8. Institutionalizing Exclusion.- Chapter 9. "Getting in is Fast, Getting out is Harder!"Chapter 10.Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
Zusatzinfo	XI, 231 p. 6 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	321 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Schlagworte	Anthropology of Crime • Anthropology of Identity • Consequences of confinement • Crime • Crime and Identity • criminal justice • Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime • Female Incarceration • Identity • Meanings of confinement • Prison • punishment • Purposes for Confinement
ISBN-10	3-319-87614-7 / 3319876147
ISBN-13	978-3-319-87614-6 / 9783319876146
Zustand	Neuware