Whores and thieves of the worst kind : a study of women, crime, and prisons, 1835-2000 / L. Mara Dodge.

Author/creator Dodge, L. Mara
Format Book
Publication InfoDeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, 2006.
Descriptionx, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Women prisoners--Illinois. --History.
Female offenders--Illinois. --History.

Contents "She will benefit from further disciplinary treatment": the historiography of women's imprisonment -- "One female prisoner is of more trouble than twenty males": female convicts at the Alton Penitentiary, 1835-1858 -- "The most degraded of their sex, if not of humanity": female convicts at the Joliet penitentiary, 1859-1896 -- "For God sake your honor let me out of here": nineteenth-century pardon petitions -- "An act becomes a crime according to the community in which it is committed": the social construction of a criminal act -- "Lured traveling salesman to her room": the character of women's crimes, 1890-1960 -- "Whores and thieves of the worst kind": a collective profile of female prisoners, 1890-1960 -- "Defective degenerates" versus "these poor unfortunates": managing female felons and delinquent girls, 1896-1919 -- "The rottenest hole in the whole prison system of Illinois": Joliet women's prison in the 1920s -- "We seem to be dealing with a psychopathic personality": psychiatric constructions of female criminality -- "Success upon parole is doubtful": women before the parole board -- "Discipline and morale have not been satisfactory": the rise and fall of the domestic ideal, 1930-1954 -- "I have trouble getting her to live by the rules": surveillance and control, 1954-1962 -- "Punished for vulgarity and unladylike behavior": Dwight's final decade as a reformatory, 1962-1972.
Local noteLittle-348869--305131055277$
LCCN 2001056213
ISBN0875806112 (pbk)
ISBN9780875806112 (pbk)

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