Resisting Carceral Violence Women's Imprisonment and the Politics of Abolition /

• Main Authors: Carlton, Bree (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Russell, Emma K. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Critical criminology.; Corrections.; Punishment.; Criminology.; Feminist theory.; Critical Criminology.; Prison and Punishment.; Criminological Theory.; Feminism.

This book explores the dramatic evolution of a feminist movement that mobilised to challenge a women's prison system in crisis. Through in-depth historical research conducted in the Australian state of Victoria that spans the 1980s and 1990s, the authors uncover how incarcerated women have work...