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Book Review


"Whores and Thieves of the Worst Kind": A Study of Women, Crime, and Prisons, 1835–2000. By L. Mara Dodge. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. x, 342 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-87580-296-6.)
L. Mara Dodge has done meticulous research in the records of the Illinois corrections system, including clemency petitions from inmates, records of parole hearings, papers of superintendents, even letters confiscated from prisoners and preserved in their files. She has also interviewed a number of former staff members who worked at the Dwight Correctional Center for women. Surely this project, apparently a revision of Dodge's dissertation, was informed by the several years she spent teaching prisoners within the unfriendly confines of Illinois institutions. Although the title suggests a universality not borne out by the book, which focuses almost entirely on one state, the scope of the study remains significant and impressive. . . .
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