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Women's Incarceration

Niharikaa Awasthy

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Indian Journal of Legal Medicine 2(2):p 93-103, July-Dec 2023. | DOI: N.A

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Awasthy N. Women's Incarceration. Indian Journal of Legal Medicine. 2023;2(2):93-103.

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Received : August 18, 2023         Accepted : September 22, 2023          Published : December 29, 2023

Abstract

Women's prisons as a regime. Experience of women's punishment and imprisonment in different regimes and community penalties changing the character of women's punishment. What’s going on and why are more and more women coming to criminal justice? Women offenders are a distinct minority in the criminal justice system, especially when compared to young men.


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Awasthy N. Women's Incarceration. Indian Journal of Legal Medicine. 2023;2(2):93-103.


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