Incarceration and Older Women: Giving Back Not Giving Up by Benedict, Regina

Incarceration and Older Women: Giving Back Not Giving Up (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781529231618)

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Format: Hardcover
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Incarceration and Older Women: Giving Back Not Giving Up by Benedict, Regina

Incarceration and Older Women: Giving Back Not Giving Up

$120.00
Incarceration and Older Women: Giving Back Not Giving Up by Benedict, Regina

Incarceration and Older Women: Giving Back Not Giving Up

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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Generativity or 'giving back' is regarded as a common life stage, occurring for many around middle age. For the first time, this book offers qualitative research on the lives and social relationships of older imprisoned women. In-depth interviews with 29 female prisoners in the south-eastern United States show that older women both engage in generative behaviours in prison and also wish to do so upon their release. As prisoners continue to age, the US finds itself at a crossroads on prison reform, with potential decarceration beginning with older prisoners. The COVID-19 pandemic has led many to consider how to thrive under difficult circumstances and in stressing the resilience of older incarcerated women, this book envisions what this could look like.

Author: Regina Benedict
ISBN-10: 1529231612
ISBN-13: 9781529231618
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2023
Pages: 142
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2024
By Regina Benedict
By Regina Benedict
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Regina White Benedict, PhD (1976-2021) was Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program at Maryville College, a program she founded. With a passion for social justice, Benedict studied incarceration as a gendered experience, focusing on the complex identities and lives of older female inmates from a feminist perspective. The Dr. Regina White Benedict Scholarship at Maryville College was established in 2022 to support students of criminal justice, especially non-traditional women working toward their college degree at Maryville. Lois Presser is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee. Beth Easterling is Visiting Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Roanoke College.

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