Marking Time in the Golden State: Women's Imprisonment in California

by Rosemary Gartner and Candace Kruttschnitt

Book Overview

In recent decades, the nature of criminal punishment has undergone change in the United States. This case study of women serving time in California in the 1960s and 1990s examines key points in this recent history. In this 2005 book, the authors begin with a look at imprisonment at the California Institution for Women in the early 1960s, when the rehabilitative model dominated official discourse. They compare women's experiences in the 1990s, at the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521532655
• ISBN13: 9780521532655
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.8"