Introduction: the study unfolds 1. Women, crime and punishment 2. Entering the inmate's world: methods 3. Time after time: women's experiences of imprisonment at the California institution for women in the 1960s and the 1990s 4. Variations across time and place in women's prison experiences 5. Negotiating prison life: how women 'do time' in the punitive era of the 1990s 6. Conclusion: the spectrum of women prisoners' experiences Appendix. Characteristics of interviewees References.
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