The multidimensionality of "pains of imprisonment" Among incarcerated women in Israel

Women and Health

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 491-505

  Soffer, Michal ^a   Ajzenstadt, Mimi ^b  

^a National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation and Research   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pains of imprisonment; Positive accounts of imprisonment; Women prisoners

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PRISON; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ISRAEL; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PRISONERS; PRISONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049337493     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: 15410331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03630242.2010.510388     Document Type: Article

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