Can't Catch a Break : Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility /

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Based on five years of fieldwork in Boston, Can't Catch a Break documents the day-to-day lives of forty women as they struggle to survive sexual abuse, violent communities, ineffective social and therapeutic programs, discriminatory local and federal policies, criminalization, incarceration, an...

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Autores principales: Sered, Susan Starr (Autor), Norton-Hawk, Maureen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2014]
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. "Joey Spit on Me": How Gender Inequality and Sexual Violence Make Women Sick
  • 2. "Nowhere to Go": Poverty, Homelessness, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility
  • 3. "Th e Little Rock of the North": Race, Gender, Class, and the Consequences of Mass Incarceration
  • 4. Suffer the Women: Pain and Perfection in a Medicalized World
  • 5. "It's All in My Head": Suffering, PTSD, and the Triumph of the Therapeutic
  • 6. Higher Powers: Th e Unholy Alliance of Religion, Self-Help Ideology, and the State
  • 7. "Suffer the Children": Fostering the Caste of the Ill and Afflicted
  • 8. Gender, Drugs, and Jail: "A System Designed for Us to Fail"
  • Conclusion: The Real Questions and a Blueprint for Moving Forward
  • Appendix: Methodology and Project Participant Overview
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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