Marking Time in the Golden State
Subtitle: Women's Imprisonment in California (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 8, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780521825580
Subjects: Prisons; Social Science; Criminal justice, Administration of; Sociology; USA; Criminology; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Criminology; Criminal justice, Administrati; California; Female offenders; Women prisoners
First sentence: THIS BOOK DESCRIBES a study of women's imprisonment in California in the early 1960s and the late 1990s, bridging a period that many scholars argue encompasses some of the most significant changes in penal policy during the last century.