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'Without fists' : age-mixing and its influence on safety and criminal contamination in women's prisons
Prisons are often considered to be places where violence and intimidation prevail, and where young prisoners are at risk of victimisation from adult prisoners. For this reason, youth in custody are housed separately from adult offenders in most Western jurisdictions. In New Zealand, for a variety of reasons, a separate facility for young women in custody is not provided as it is for young men. Therefore, researchers were able to conduct a study to investigate the experience of age-mixing from the point of view of young women in custody. Dominant notions of what constitutes contamination and who perpetrates violence in the custodial setting have been challenged as a result of analysis of this data. In fact, young women who were age-mixed in custody asserted that age-mixing has the effect of decreasing the degree and impact of the prevailing violent culture.
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Youth studies AustraliaVolume
31Issue
2Pagination
17 - 25Publisher
Australian Clearinghouse for Youth StudiesLocation
Hobart, Tas.ISSN
1038-2569eISSN
1839-4914Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2012, Australian Clearinghouse for Youth StudiesUsage metrics
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