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The big prison

Amanda George

Published in:
Women and the law : proceedings of a conference held 24-26 September 1991
Patricia Weiser Easteal and Sandra McKillop (eds.)
ISBN 0 642 18639 1 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1993
(AIC Conference Proceedings; no. 16)

Abstract

George explores the important interrelationships between the experience of women in corrective institutions and the prison-like control of women in general society. She discusses sex roles; economic dependence; the types of offences women are punished for; the politics of language; violence against women; and the control of women's bodies. Problems faced by women in prison include sexual harassment; inadequate provision of rehabilitation, detoxification and medical services; and the denial of contact visits by inmates' children.