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Focusing on women in Illinois prisons, this study investigates women's crimes and punishments over the past century and a half. A wide range of factors, including race and relative poverty, are examined. While there have over time been changes in the perception and punishment of criminality among women, Dodge points out that female prisoners have generally been treated as failures both in society and among other women.

What type of women are sent to prison? How are these women prosecuted, and what are their crimes? This text traces the changing patterns of women's crime and punishment in a representative state from 1835 to 2000. Drawn from primary sources, the voices of female prisoners emerge poignantly as individuals tell their stories. Illinois - a large, industrial state with an ethnically and racially diverse population - provides the setting for exploring the interactions of gender, race and class in the justice system. From early times, women's prisons in Illinois reflected the dominant national...