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9780521825580

Marking Time in the Golden State: Women's Imprisonment in California

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    9780521825580

  • ISBN10:

    052182558X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-11-08
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

In recent decades, the nature of criminal punishment has undergone change in the United States. This case study of women serving time in California in the 1960s and 1990s examines key points in this recent history. The authors begin with a look at imprisonment at the California Institution for Women in the early 1960s, when the rehabilitative model dominated official discourse. They compare women's experiences in the 1990s, at the California Institution for Women and the Valley State Prison, when the recent 'get tough' era was near its peak. Drawing on archival data, interviews, and surveys, their analysis considers the relationships among official philosophies and practices of imprisonment, women's responses to the prison regime, and relations between women prisoners. The experiences of women prisoners reflected the transformations Americans have witnessed in punishment over recent decades, but they also mirrored the deprivations and restrictions of imprisonment.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. Introduction 1(7)
The Study Unfolds
4(2)
Overview
6(2)
2. Women, Crime, and Punishment in California 8(31)
Crime, Criminal Justice, and Politics in California, 1960 to 1998
9(12)
Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice in California, 1960 to 1998
21(10)
An Overview of Women's Imprisonment in California, 1960 through 1998
31(6)
Conclusion
37(2)
3. Entering the Prisons: Methods 39(26)
A Temporal Study of the California Institution for Women, Frontera
40(7)
Expanding the Research into an Institutional Comparison
47(17)
Conclusion
64(1)
4. Women's Experiences of Imprisonment at the California Institution for Women in the 1960's and the 1990's 65(30)
Relationships among Official Philosophies and Practices of Imprisonment and Prisoners' Experiences
67(4)
Official Philosophies and Practices of Imprisonment at the California Institution for Women in the Early 1960's
71(5)
Official Philosophies and Practices of Imprisonment at the California Institution for Women in the Mid-1990's
76(5)
Prisoners' Views on and Responses to the Prison Regime and Staff at the California Institution for Women
81(7)
Prisoners' Views on and Relations with Other Prisoners at the California Institution for Women
88(4)
Conclusion
92(3)
5. Variations across Time and Place in Women's Prison Experiences 95(26)
Official Philosophies and Practices of Imprisonment at Valley State Prison for Women in the late 1990's
97(4)
Prisoners' Views on and Responses to the Prison Regime and Staff at Valley State Prison for Women
101(5)
Prisoners' Views on and Relations with Other Prisoners at Valley State Prison for Women
106(2)
Survey Data on Prisoners' Experiences of Doing Time
108(11)
Conclusion
119(2)
6. Negotiating Prison Life: How Women "Did Time" in the Punitive Era of the 1990's 121(36)
The Pioneers: Prisonization, the Inmate Code, and Argot Roles
123(3)
Rule Breaking and Mental Health
126(1)
Recasting Concepts of Women Inmates' Responses to Prison
127(2)
Conceptualizing "Doing Time"
129(7)
Exploring Institutional Differences
136(2)
Understanding the Different Ways Women "Do Time"
138(5)
A Different View of Women's Responses to Imprisonment
143(11)
Evaluating Women's Responses to Prison
154(3)
7. Conclusion: The Spectrum of Women Prisoners' Experiences 157(6)
Appendix: Characteristics of Interviewees 163(10)
References 173(16)
Author Index 189(3)
Subject Index 192

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