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Can I read Sledgehammer : Women’s Imprisonment at the Millennium on EtoBox?
Sledgehammer : Women’s Imprisonment at the Millennium by Pat Carlen (auth.) is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sledgehammer : Women’s Imprisonment at the Millennium about?
Pat Carlen's compelling and compassionate analysis of the penal control of women at the end of the twentieth century is based on new research completed in 1997. She develops many of the themes of previous work, while introducing new concepts such as 'gender-testing', and 'ameliorative justice'. Skilfully and vividly presenting the words and views of both staff and inmates of the women's prisons, Carlen presents a powerful case for both a quantitative and qualitative reduction in women's imprison
Who reads Sledgehammer : Women’s Imprisonment at the Millennium?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Pat Carlen (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780333746066
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Law, Science, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25