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Gender, Geography, and Punishment : the Experience of Women in Carceral Russsia

This book won the Association of Women in Slavonic Studies Book of the Year, 2013

This is the first theoretical and empirical monograph of multi-prison sites in Russia that exmaines, in-depth, the relationship between distance and punishment as it affects women prisoners. The scale and ambition of the book are unique as there has been no other criminological study using the voices of prisoners as a template for better understanding how geography shapes culture to create exceptional penal experiences. The book, 304 pages and taking four years to write, offers a unique ethnography and it has made a signifciant contribution to generating a new field of criminology: carceral geography. The book is, therefore, genuinely ground-breaking.