Women and Crime: Imprisonment Issues
The Penal System, Issues for the Nineties, Vol. 44, pp. 23-27, 1995
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Women and Crime: Imprisonment Issues
Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice. Vol. 35, pp. 1-7, 1992
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 12 Jan 2010
Last Revised: 20 Jun 2018
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Abstract
Easteal provides a brief profile of the sociodemographic and sentence background of women in prison. She highlights the issues affecting female inmates such as the perpetuation of the three rules of dysfunctional families within the prisons and explains how the gendered needs of women inmates are generally not met within the institution.
Keywords: women in prison, gender
JEL Classification: K00
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Easteal, Patricia L., Women and Crime: Imprisonment Issues. The Penal System, Issues for the Nineties, Vol. 44, pp. 23-27, 1995, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1743916
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