Gender, Geography, and Punishment: The Experience of Women in Carceral Russia

by Laura Piacentini and Judith Pallot

This book is the first of its kind that brings together human geography and the sociology of punishment to explore the relationship between distance and punishment in con-temporary Russia. Using established penological and geographical theories, the book presents in-depth empirical research to show how the experiences of women prisoners are shaped by the distances that the Russian penal service sends prisoners to serve their sentences. Its most eye-catching...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199658617
• ISBN13: 9780199658619
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"