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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Women's prison"”.
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Creative space - creating space - digital technology in a women's prison : a case study
Prison education has the potential to transforms offenders. It forms part of prison regimes for female offenders. At the beginning of the 21st century prison education and basic skills development are at the centre of rehabilitation debates. Computer technology has transformed human communication …
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Challenging occupational norms : an ethnographic study of female prison officers in a women's prison
Female prison officers have an important role to play in the lives of the imprisoned women they are charged with ‘looking after’. This thesis draws upon 64 days of research, over 35 weeks, over a 12-month period to produce a unique ethnographic study of female frontline officers responsible for …
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Comparisons of inmate offense severity ratings and attitudes toward rehabilitation
… of female inmates in a California state women's prison.
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Comparisons of inmate offense severity ratings and attitudes toward rehabilitation
… of female inmates in a California state women's prison.
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“Poor forsaken colored girls:” Rebecca Latimer Felton, white supremacy, and prison reform, 1865-1900
<p>The main argument of this thesis is that The Women's Prison Reform Movement, from 1865-1900, was constructed around both gendered and racial ideologies that linked so-called "proper" womanhood to whiteness and marked black women as subhuman, impure, and unable to be reformed, and that this …
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Planning for the outside from the inside : female prisoners' experience of pre-release and the construction of a new life
… resettlement and re-entry into society after prison. However, as is too often the case in criminological research, women are underrepresented in these areas of investigation and there is currently no UK study on the prison based resettlement practices of women prisoners and the relation this …
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Understanding Incarcerated Women's Motivation to Exercise
Women make up only 7% of the incarcerated population (Guerino, Harrison, & Sabol, 2012). However, this number is rising exponentially. The female prison population has increased eight-fold since 1980 (Carson & Gionelli, 2013). Up to 70% of women who are incarcerated will recidivate (Mallik-Kane & …
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Big House: Women, Prison, and the Domestic
<p>Big House: Women, Prison, and the Domestic, addresses the development of the contemporary US carceral state, foregrounding the confinement and control of women and the evolving ideological frameworks and disciplinary techniques that guided women’s incarceration beginning with the inception of …
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Case Study: Breastfeeding Facilitation and Initiation within one Prison Nursery Program
<p>Breastfeeding rates of incarcerated women in the U.S. are unknown. As the female prison population rises, little to no data exists on breastfeeding initiation within prison nursery programs. The purpose of this case study was to assess breastfeeding facilitation and initiation within one prison …
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Životní svět trestankyň v řepském klášteře Kongregace sv. Karla Boromejského (na přelomu 30. a 40. let 20. století)
Cílem bakalářské práce je nastínit každodenní život a osudy trestanek v řepském klášteře Kongregace sv. Karla Boromejského na přelomu třicátých a čtyřicátých let dvacátého století. Práce zahrnuje rozbor trestanek na základě jejich národnosti, sociálního složení, typu zločinu, doby trestu, či …