Women lifers : lives before, behind, and beyond bars / Meredith Huey Dye and Ronald H. Aday.

The number of women in United States prisons has increased dramatically since the 1980s, and has in proportion outpaced that of men's incarceration. Despite these numbers, incarcerated women, and women lifers specifically, represent a relatively small percentage of the overall correctional and lifer...

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Main Authors:	Dye, Meredith Huey, 1976- (Author), Aday, Ron H. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
Subjects:	Women prisoners > United States. Life imprisonment > United States. Female offenders > United States. Criminal justice, Administration of > United States. Criminal justice, Administration of. Female offenders. Life imprisonment. Women prisoners. United States.
Physical Description:	xiii, 225 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Book