Incarceration and Older Women
eBook - ePub

Incarceration and Older Women

Giving Back Not Giving Up

  1. 142 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Incarceration and Older Women

Giving Back Not Giving Up

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Incarceration and Older Women by Regina Benedict, Lois Presser,Beth Easterling in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Criminology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. 1 Ageing Less Than Gracefully
  7. 2 Welcome to My Home: Cell Block D
  8. 3 Older, Wiser, and Incarcerated
  9. 4 A Positively Negative Experience
  10. 5 Parenting Behind Bars
  11. 6 Ageing in Their Own Words: Peace of Mind, Body, and Circumstances
  12. 7 ‘Usefulness’ of a ‘Useless’ Population
  13. 8 Why Not Give Them a Chance?
  14. Afterword
  15. Appendix A: Sample Demographics and Details of Current Sentence
  16. Appendix B: Research Synopsis
  17. Appendix C: Suggestions for Further Reading
  18. References
  19. Index