ABSTRACT The criminal justice system is increasingly becoming the subject of national dialogue throughout the United States due to the sheer number of people it impacts: according to the Department of Justice, nearly 7 million, or 1 in 35, U.S. residents are under some form of correctional control. The four books reviewed in this essay derive their findings from ethnographic methods that offer deep insights into the carceral state’s everyday operations in individual women’s lives, while raising profound theoretical and practical questions about gender and governance. We engage with these texts from unique situated standpoints as insider-outsiders with intimate knowledge of the U.S. criminal justice system gleaned from our respective lived experiences, services provision work, and research with currently and formerly incarcerated Wyoming women.

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监狱中的妇女：人种学对性别和患癌状态的思考

摘要刑事司法系统由于影响的人数众多，正日益成为全美国范围内全国对话的主题：根据司法部的数据，将近700万人，即35分之一的美国居民处于某种形式的矫正控制。本文中介绍的四本书是从人种学方法中得出的结论，这些人种学方法提供了对个体妇女生活中患癌状态日常操作的深刻见解，同时提出了有关性别与治理的深刻理论和实践问题。我们以独特的立场来看待这些案文，作为内幕外线人士，他们从我们各自的经验，服务提供工作以及对目前和以前被囚禁的怀俄明州妇女的研究中获得了对美国刑事司法系统的深入了解。