Fragile moralities and dangerous sexualities : two centuries of semi-penal institutionalisation for women /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Barton, Alana, 1966-
Imprint:	Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.
Description:	176 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Probation -- Great Britain. Female offenders -- Great Britain. Sex role -- Great Britain. Corrections -- Great Britain. Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain. Corrections. Criminal justice, Administration of. Female offenders. Probation. Sex role. Great Britain.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5578853

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ISBN:	0754638294 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Women behaving badly: feminist theory and the social control of women
'Wayward girls and wicked women': the history and development of the semi-penal institution
Domestic discipline: semi-penal institutionalisation in the nineteenth century
Between the church and the state: semi-penal institutionalisation in the twentieth century
Vernon Lodge: the probation hostel for women as a semi-penal institution?
Conclusion
Appendix: methodology
Bibliography
Index

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