The "meanings" of female staff in male therapeutic community prisons: gender as symbolism and specialism

Informed by observations of and interviews with male prisoners and female staff, this article proposes that women working in democratic therapeutic communities are credited by prisoners with two 'meanings': as symbolic representatives of familial and intimate nurturers and as gender specia...

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Main Author: Stevens, Alisa (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013-12.
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