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An edition of No safe haven (1999)

No safe haven

stories of women in prison

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This work draws on the life stories of forty women inmates at a minimum security prison in North Carolina. It explores their lives before imprisonment, enabling the reader to understand their incarceration within the context of childhood and adolescent experiences, domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse, low education levels, and poor work histories. Lori B. Girshick relates the prisoners' views of doing time, the criminal justice system, and their own rehabilitation.

She also interviews family members, friends, and social service providers to show how support networks function or fail. Girshick argues convincingly that the treatment of women in society creates circumstances that lead some of them to break the law, and she makes specific recommendations for policies that address the need for social change and for community programs designed to deter crime.

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Northeastern University Press
Language
English
Pages
201

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Subjects
Social conditions, Interviews, Women prisoners, Black Mountain Correctional Center for Women (Black Mountain,N.C.), Black Mountain Correctional Center for Women (Black Mountain, N.C.)
Places
North Carolina

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No Safe Haven: Stories of Women in Prison
July 6, 2000, Northeastern University Press
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Cover of: No safe haven
No safe haven: stories of women in prison
1999, Northeastern University Press
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Boston
Series
The Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
365/.975688
Library of Congress
HV9475.N82 B534 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 201 p. ;
Number of pages
201

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Open Library
OL386137M
Internet Archive
nosafehavenstori0000girs
ISBN 10
1555533736
LCCN
98048852
OCLC/WorldCat
98048852, 40143043
Library Thing
1343789
Goodreads
2415065

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