In the tube at San Quentin: The "secondary prisonization" of women visiting inmates

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-107

  Comfort, Megan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mass incarceration; Prison; Secondary prisonization; United States; Visitation; Wives; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037256404     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241602238939     Document Type: Review

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