Gender, Geography, and Punishment - Judith (Professor of the Human Geography of Russia at the University of Oxford and Official Student of Christ Church) Pallot - Bog

Gaining access to a number of penal colonies to interview prisoners, the authors show that much in the Russian prison system today is a direct inheritance from the Soviet period with the result that, despite wide-ranging the reforms since 1991, the Russian penal experience for women is still uniquely painful.