Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Ageing Less Than Gracefully
- 2 Welcome to My Home: Cell Block D
- 3 Older, Wiser, and Incarcerated
- 4 A Positively Negative Experience
- 5 Parenting Behind Bars
- 6 Ageing in Their Own Words: Peace of Mind, Body, and Circumstances
- 7 ‘Usefulness’ of a ‘Useless’ Population
- 8 Why Not Give Them a Chance?
- Afterword
- Appendix A Sample Demographics and Details of Current Sentence
- Appendix B Research Synopsis
- Appendix C Suggestions for Further Reading
- References
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Ageing Less Than Gracefully
- 2 Welcome to My Home: Cell Block D
- 3 Older, Wiser, and Incarcerated
- 4 A Positively Negative Experience
- 5 Parenting Behind Bars
- 6 Ageing in Their Own Words: Peace of Mind, Body, and Circumstances
- 7 ‘Usefulness’ of a ‘Useless’ Population
- 8 Why Not Give Them a Chance?
- Afterword
- Appendix A Sample Demographics and Details of Current Sentence
- Appendix B Research Synopsis
- Appendix C Suggestions for Further Reading
- References
- Index
Summary
Dr. Regina (Gina) White Benedict passed away at the age of 44 on the 31st of March, 2021.
She was Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Coordinator of the Criminal Justice programme at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Tennessee in 2009. She earned her MA degree from East Tennessee State University (2000) and BA from Mississippi State University (1998). Among the honours she received were a Most Distinguished Graduate Student award from East Tennessee State University and an Excellence in Teaching award from the University of Tennessee. The editors of this book have prepared Gina's doctoral dissertation, Giving Back Not Giving Up: Generativity Among Older Female Inmates for this book publication. They have not reframed or restructured the dissertation and have minimally edited Gina's words.
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- Incarceration and Older WomenGiving Back Not Giving Up, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2023