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A thoroughly researched pioneering work based on personal interviews with inmates and prison personnel and on data compiled from questionnaires and inmate record files, "Women's Prison" reveals that homosexual liaisons are the primary foundation of the social structure of female inmates; shows that homosexual behavior can be a superficial kind of adjustment to particular situational privations; amplifies and broadens the application of earlier findings on men's prisons; and opens the way for future studies involving the delineation of homosexual roles in the free community. This study began with both of the authors' interest in gathering data on women in prison to see whether there were female prisoner types consistent with the reported characteristics of male prisoners. Early in the course of this study it became apparent that the most salient distinction to be made among the female inmates was between those who were and those who were not engaged in homosexual behavior in prison, and further, of those who were so involved, between the incumbents of "masculine" and "feminine" roles. It has become increasingly apparent that prison behavior is rooted in more than just the conditions

Author

David A Ward; Gene G Kassebaum; University of California, Los Angeles. School of Public Health.; National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315135892

Subjects

Sociology, Science, Social Science