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Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma's Women Prisoners - Couverture souple

Livre 30 sur 48: Critical Issues in Crime and Society

Sharp, Susan F.

 
9780813562759: Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma's Women Prisoners
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0813562759 ISBN 13 : 9780813562759
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Through an innovative methodology that combines statistical rigor with extensive personal interviews, Sharp shows how female incarceration affects not only individuals, but also families and communities. Putting a human face on a growing social problem, Mean Lives, Mean Laws raises important questions about both the state of Oklahoma and the state of the nation.

Oklahoma has long held the dubious honor of having the highest female incarceration rate in the country, nearly twice the national average. In this compelling new book, sociologist Susan Sharp sets out to discover just what has gone so wrong in the state of Oklahoma--and what that might tell us about trends in female incarceration nationwide.

The culmination of over a decade of original research, Mean Lives, Mean Laws exposes a Kafkaesque criminal justice system, one that has no problem with treating women as collateral damage in the War on Drugs or with stripping female prisoners of their parental rights. Yet it also reveals the individual histories of women who were jailed in Oklahoma, providing intimate portraits of their lives before, during, and after their imprisonment. We witness the impoverished and abusive conditions in which many of these women were raised; we get a vivid portrait of their everyday lives behind bars; and we glimpse the struggles that lead many ex-convicts to fall back into the penal system.

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À propos de l'auteur

SUSAN F. SHARP is the David Ross Boyd Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. Co-Chair of the Oklahoma Legislative Task Force on Children of Incarcerated Parents, she has written over thirty articles, as well as the book Hidden Victims: Effects of the Death Penalty on Families of the Accused (Rutgers University Press, 2005).

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Éditeur
Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813562759
ISBN 13 
9780813562759
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
210
Coordonnées du fabricant
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