In Search of Safety

Barbara Owen is Professor Emerita at California State University, Fresno. James Wells is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. Joycelyn Pollock is Distinguished Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Texas State University.

• Acknowledgments 1. Intersectional Inequality and Women's Imprisonment 2. Pathways and Intersecting Inequality 3. Prison Community, Prison Conditions, and Gendered Harm 4. Searching for Safety through Prison Capital 5. Inequalities and Contextual Conflict 6. Intersections of Inequality with Correctional Staff 7. Gendered Human Rights and the Search for Safety Appendix 1: Methodology Appendix 2: Tables of Findings Glossary Bibliography Index

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