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Peer reviewedChatman, Elfreda A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Examines the role of information and theories of "life in the round" through a study of ways in which inmates at a maximum-security prison for women in Neuse City (North Carolina) redefine their social world to survive incarceration. Findings from ethnographic research and interviews with 80 women at the prison revealed that a life in the round…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Criminals, Ethnography, Females
