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THE (NON)SENSE OF THE PENALTY OF IMPRISONMENT OR TOWARD FEMINIST ANALYSES OF PENALTY

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is feminist analyses of penalty through exploration whether it is possible to achieve the purpose of punishment by executing the imprisonment sentence in the way it is done in the contemporary prisons for women. This analyses is based on the results of the research carried out in the prison for women in Požarevac and on results of the comparative researches in prisons for women in the USA, Canada and Europe. The author concludes that open institutions can rarely be found among female penitentiary institutions. Thus, the institutionalization and treatment of female convicts, in respect to the level of control and security, stands in absolute contradiction with the real social threat and is more a way of producing further dependence, rather than a method for preparing them for normal life on freedom. Such execution of the penalty of imprisonment does not serve the purpose of punishment, but on the contrary, it creates convenient conditions for further criminalization and/or victimization of female convicts.

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