Women in Prison

  • Women in Prison: A Reference Handbook
    By Cyndi Banks

    Focusing on an often overlooked subject, this volume explores women's incarceration, from the first women-only prison to modern state-of-the-art facilities.

  • Women in Prison: Gender and Social Control
    By Jim Thomas, Barbara H. Zaitzow

    ... Learned Hopefulness and Learned Helplessness Women in domestically violent relationships have been found to adjust their behavior based on experiences of learned hopefulness and learned helplessness . Learned hopefulness is a " a ...

  • Women in Prison: An Insight Into Captivity and Crime
    By Suvarna Cherukuri

    Women in Prison takes a look at the multiple specificities that bring women into the prison system. Drawing on empirical sources and original research, and relying primarily on interviews of...

  • Women in Prison
    By Kathryn Watterson

    Women in Prison

  • Women in Prison: A Reference Handbook
    By Cyndi Banks

    Focusing on an often overlooked subject, this volume explores women's incarceration, from the first women-only prison to modern state-of-the-art facilities.

  • Women In Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb
    By Kathryn Watterson

    Based on interviews with nearly 1,000 female inmates and prison officials, the author examines the inequitable treatment of women in prison and gives female inmates the opportunity to describe their...