REFORMATION OF WOMEN’S IMPRISONMENT IN TERMS OF PENAL REFORMS IN THE XIX C. UNITED STATES Cover Image

РЕФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ЖЕНСКОГО ТЮРЕМНОГО ЗАКЛЮЧЕНИЯ В УСЛОВИЯХ ПЕНИТЕНЦИАРНЫХ ПРЕОБРАЗОВАНИЙ В США В XIX В.
REFORMATION OF WOMEN’S IMPRISONMENT IN TERMS OF PENAL REFORMS IN THE XIX C. UNITED STATES

Author(s): Svetlana Anatolevna Vasilieva
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Geography, Regional studies, 19th Century, Social Norms / Social Control, Penal Policy
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: American prison reform; women’s imprisonment; Women’s Prison Association; social control;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses some aspects of the American prison reform in the XIX c., associated with female crime and peculiarities of penal treatment for incarcerated women. It reviews the main institutional changes and reform results. The problem of modern concepts in the historical and criminological literature representing controversial views on the problem is treated in the article. The author comes to the conclusion that the unqualified success of the radical changes in criminal justice system during the XIX c. resulted in the consolidation of new principles and standards of women’s imprisonment, such as: well established medical facilities, the detention of mothers with children, the system of children education inside prisons, the practice of post-penitentiary patronage.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 94-102
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian