In Search of Safety: Confronting Inequality in Women's Imprisonment (Gender and Justice) (Volume 3)

In Search of Safety takes a close look at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women’s prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantages are at the root of prison conflict and violence and mirror the women’s pathways to prison. Women must negotiate these inequities by developing forms of prison capital—social, human, cultural, emotional, and economic—to ensure their safety while inside. The authors also analyze how conflict and subsequent violence result from human-rights violations inside the prison that occur within the gendered context of substandard prison conditions, inequalities of capital among those imprisoned, and relationships with correctional staff. In Search of Safety proposes a way forward—the implementation of international human-rights standards for U.S. prisons. 
 

• Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform
• Race, Crime, and Justice: The Continuing American Dilemma (Keynotes Criminology Criminal Justice)
• Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court
• Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America
• Punishment and Inequality in America
• Life Without Parole: Living and Dying in Prison Today
• Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
• Are Prisons Obsolete?
• The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison
• Sociological Theory in the Classical Era: Text and Readings