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Planning for the outside from the inside: female prisoners' experience of pre-release and the construction of a new life

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Planning for the outside from the inside: female prisoners' experience of pre-release and the construction of a new life. / Hart, Emily Luise.
University of Leeds, 2012. 476 p.

Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

Harvard

Hart, EL 2012, 'Planning for the outside from the inside: female prisoners' experience of pre-release and the construction of a new life', PhD, University of Leeds. <http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.595648>

APA

Hart, E. L. (2012). Planning for the outside from the inside: female prisoners' experience of pre-release and the construction of a new life. [Doctoral Thesis, University of Leeds]. University of Leeds.

Vancouver

Hart EL. Planning for the outside from the inside: female prisoners' experience of pre-release and the construction of a new life. University of Leeds, 2012. 476 p.

Author

Hart, Emily Luise. / Planning for the outside from the inside : female prisoners' experience of pre-release and the construction of a new life. University of Leeds, 2012. 476 p.

Bibtex

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RIS

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