Kobiety dożywotnio pozbawione wolności
Women sentenced to life imprisonment

Longing, helplessness and hope

Author(s): Maria Ejchart-Dubois
Subject(s): Criminal Law
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: murder; prison sentence; murderess; woman in prison; discomfort of life imprisonment; adaptation to prison life
Summary/Abstract: There are 14 women serving life sentence in Poland. Each of them copes with life sentence in a different way. The article attempts to find the relation between their life before they committed murder, the crime itself and the sentence they are serving.

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