Reconstructing a women's prison : the Holloway redevelopment project, 1968-88 /

Holloway Prison for Women was rebuilt in the expectation that it would revolutionize the treatment of female offenders. This work describes the changes in penal ideology and conceptions of women's criminality as they fed into the design of this new prison from 1968 to 1988.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rock, Paul Elliott
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Clarendon, 1996.
Series:	Clarendon studies in criminology.
Subjects:	HM Prison Holloway > Design and construction. HM Prison Holloway. HM Prison Holloway Reformatories for women > England > London > Case studies. Female offenders > Rehabilitation > England > London > Case studies. Women prisoners > Rehabilitation > England > London > Case studies. Prisons de femmes > Grande-Bretagne > Londres > Cas, Études de. Prisons > Grande-Bretagne > Londres > Conception et construction > Cas, Études de. Criminelles > Réhabilitation > Grande-Bretagne > Londres > Cas, Études de. Prisons de femmes > Angleterre > Londres > Études de cas. Criminelles > Réhabilitation > Angleterre > Londres > Études de cas. Female offenders > Rehabilitation Reformatories for women Women prisoners > Rehabilitation England > London Gevangeniswezen. Penologie. Vrouwengevangenissen. Social Welfare & Social Work. Social Sciences. Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency. Electronic books. Case studies
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. The Noble Castle: Holloway as a Victorian Radial Prison
2. The Prison Department, Women and Criminology
3. The Grim Fortress: The Condemning of the Victorian Prison
4. The Secure Hospital: Planning the New Holloway
5. Metamorphosis I: The Physical Reconstruction of Holloway
6. Metamorphosis II: The Penological Redefinition of Holloway
7. Metamorphosis III: The Social Transformation of Holloway
8. The Labyrinth: The New Holloway and its Problems
9. The Minotaur: Disturbed Women and Monstrous Visions
10. Theseus: Colin Allen and the Reformation of Holloway
11. Conclusion.