"Building up broken lives": Re-shaping femininity and the rehabilitation of offenders in Britain’s first non-security prison for women, 1946-1954
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9 décembre 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.psorbonne.44963
- isbn: 9782859444884
- eisbn: 9791035103699
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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D’Cruze Shani, « "Building up broken lives": Re-shaping femininity and the rehabilitation of offenders in Britain’s first non-security prison for women, 1946-1954 », Publications de la Sorbonne, ID : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.44963
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Convicted British women were imprisoned across the full range of criminal offences in the twentieth century, but many of them served time for property crime, much of it comparatively trivial. Most women prisoners at mid-century were first offenders often serving short sentences, despite a significant minority of repeat offenders on prostitution or drunk and disorderly charges. Men far outnumbered the women’s prison population. In 1901 the daily average prison population of sentenced and unsen...