Caught Up in the System: How Women Who Have Been Incarcerated Negotiate Power

The Prison Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 473-492

  Mageehon, Alexandria ^a  

^a New Mexico State University Alamogordo   (United States)

Author keywords

power brokering; prison education; women's education

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349122218     PISSN: 00328855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032885508325393     Document Type: Article

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