Incarceration and Older Women – Giving Back Not Gi ving Up - Regina Benedict

Winner of the American Society of Criminology Division on Feminist Criminology's Best Book Award 2025. 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... Zobrazit více