Moral Agent or Actuarial Subject: Risk and Canadian Women's Imprisonment

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-94

  Hannah Moffat, Kelly ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; governmentality; prison; risk; theory; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039251160     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480699003001004     Document Type: Article

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