Women's Prison: Sex and Social Structure

by Gene Kassebaum and David A. Ward

Book Overview

A thoroughly researched pioneering work based on personal interviews with inmates and prison personnel and on data compiled from questionnaires and inmate record files, Women's Prison reveals that homosexual liaisons are the primary foundation of the social structure of female inmates; shows that homosexual behavior can be a superficial kind of adjustment to particular situational privations; amplifies and broadens the application of earlier findings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202309339
• ISBN13: 9780202309330
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"