Judith Pallot and Elena Katz, Waiting at the Prison Gate: Women, Identity and the Russian Penal System
Over the last three generations, nearly every Russian family have had a family member in prison at some time. Meanwhile, wives and female relatives of prisoners have been ignored by research, while there is abundant scholarship on Russian crime and prison subcultures, especially on the so-called Th...
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The Journal of power institutions in post-soviet societies
2019
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| Summary: | Over the last three generations, nearly every Russian family have had a family member in prison at some time. Meanwhile, wives and female relatives of prisoners have been ignored by research, while there is abundant scholarship on Russian crime and prison subcultures, especially on the so-called Thieves-in-Law (vory-v-zakone). Finally, Judith Pallot and Elena Katz, in Waiting at the Prison Gate: Women, Identity and the Russian Penal System, encapsulate the experience of wives and female rela... |
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