Female Imprisonment: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement

by Catarina Frois

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319636847
• ISBN13: 9783319636849
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"