Reconfigurations of penality: The ongoing case of the women's imprisonment and reintegration industries

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 337-360

  Carlen, Pat ^a   Tombs, Jacqueline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

imprisonment; reintegration; sentencing; transcarceralism; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746067148     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480606065910     Document Type: Article

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