
Are Prisons Obsolete? (YES!)
Beyond Prisons
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Prisons and Gender
Prisons are greatest institutions, but they're not absoluteland. She has a really great discussion in here about prisons and gender. And it's a really interesting discussion because it delves into our perceptions of crime and punishment. So i'm read a little bit here, if you don't mind. I have an e book,. so i don't know what page this is on, but hopefully you will be able to find it. H chapter four, it reads, since the end of the eighteenth century, when, as we have seen, imprisonment began to emerge as the dom form of punishment, convicted women have been represented as essentially different from their male counterparts. Even though there
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