Women prisoners in India: tracing gender gaps in theorising imprisonment

It explores the existing theories of imprisonment concentrating on women prisoners. The male centric bias of the criminology is highlighted and it is analysed that how it has adversely affected the cause of women prisoners. It tries to link various social concepts like social justice, social choice with women prisoners and try to locate the women prisoners in the broader spectrum of social life. The paper tries to create a nexus between the hegemony and the problem of women prisoners and ascertain whether hegemony is in any way related or responsible for the problems faced by women prisoners. The adequacy of the existing literature and its failures to address the women prisoners is also included.