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Negotiating toilet access: a qualitative exploration of women's incarceration
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Authors/contributors
- Smoyer, Amy B. (Author)
- Schwarz, Paige (Author)
- Camenga, Deepa (Author)
- Rickey, Leslie (Author)
Title
Negotiating toilet access: a qualitative exploration of women's incarceration
Abstract
Norms and behaviors about toileting in prison can expand understanding of women's lived experience of incarceration. Knowledge about this subject is significant because access to clean, safe toilets is a human rights issue, and toilet habits can impact social, mental, and physical outcomes. Three focus groups were conducted with 15 incarcerated women about their quotidian prison toilet experiences. While the toilet was physically available, institutional regulations, social norms, and women's individual psychologies limited their access and utilization. The ways in which toilet use was negotiated with self, peers, and are described, and the implications of these findings are discussed.
Publication
The Prison Journal
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Date
2023-05-10
Pages
00328855231173146
Citation Key
smoyerNegotiatingToiletAccess2023
Accessed
5/25/23, 2:03 PM
ISSN
0032-8855
Short Title
Negotiating toilet access
Language
en
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SAGE Journals
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Citation
Smoyer, A. B., Schwarz, P., Camenga, D., & Rickey, L. (2023). Negotiating toilet access: a qualitative exploration of women’s incarceration. The Prison Journal, 00328855231173146. https://doi.org/10.1177/00328855231173146
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