Resisting carceral violence : women's imprisonment and the politics of abolition /

Resisting carceral violence : women's imprisonment and the politics of abolition / Bree Carlton, Emma K. Russell.

This book explores the dramatic evolution of a feminist movement that mobilised to challenge a women's prison system in crisis. Through in-depth historical research conducted in the Australian state of Victoria that spans the 1980s and 1990s, the authors uncover how incarcerated women have work...

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Main Authors: Carlton, Bree (Author), Russell, Emma K., 1986- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Subjects:
Women prisoners > Abuse of > Australia > Victoria.
Prisons > Australia > Victoria > History.
Women prisoners > Australia > Victoria > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women prisoners > Violence against > Australia > Victoria.
Feminism > Australia > Victoria.
Feminist criminology.
Feminism.
Prisons.
Women prisoners > Abuse of.
Women prisoners > Social conditions.
Victoria.
History.

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Call Number: HV9874.V5 C37 2018
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