The starting point of the dissertation is a thesis that social expectations, tasks and norms, attached to the female gender are also expressed when a prison faces the task of executing a prison sentence for a woman, or when a woman confronts the task of serving prison sentence. First, the dissertation presents the existing empirical findings and theoretical concepts on imprisoned women and prisons for women, which is then followed by an empirical part of the research in the only Slovenian prison for women. The latter represents a test of the existing national and foreign theory and research findings on the case of women in the Slovene prison system, concretely what are gender-based characteristics of imprisoned women and of the prison for women in Slovenia. The dissertation is thus filling the research gap in Slovenian criminology, which had so far rarely addressed women in general and specifically from a gender point of view. In the closing discussion, the reasons for the rapidly increasing number of women in Slovenian prisons are presented and attention is drawn to the specific features of the Slovenian prison system in relation to women and some of its similarities to women prisons abroad. Particular emphasis is placed on multiple discrimination against women in Slovenian prison system.
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