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, incarcerati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Sered, Susan Starr (Autor), Norton-Hawk, Maureen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Temas:
Abused women > Massachusetts > Boston > Social conditions.
Female offenders > Massachusetts > Boston > Social conditions.
Women drug addicts > Massachusetts > Boston > Social conditions.
Responsibility > Social aspects > Massachusetts > Boston.
Femmes victimes de violence > Massachusetts > Boston > Conditions sociales.
Criminelles > Massachusetts > Boston > Conditions sociales.
Femmes toxicomanes > Massachusetts > Boston > Conditions sociales.
Responsabilité > Aspect social > Massachusetts > Boston.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Abused women > Social conditions
Responsibility > Social aspects
Kvinnomisshandel.
Kvinnliga brottslingar.
Kvinnliga missbrukare.
Ansvar > sociala aspekter.
Massachusetts > Boston
american prison system.
american studies.
bad choices.
boston.
civic.
class and gender.
criminalization.
cultural studies.
day to day lives.
discrimination.
discriminatory politics.
drug abuse.
drugs.
gender studies.
human condition.
incarceration.
ineffective programs.
local and federal government.
mass incarceration.
personal flaws.
personal responsibility.
prison system.
prison.
sexual abuse.
social inequality.
social programs.
therapeutic programs.
urban sociology.
violence in society.
violent communities.
welfare.
women.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Joey spit on me" : how gender inequality and sexual violence make women sick
  • "Nowhere to go" : poverty, homelessness, and the limits of personal responsibility
  • "The Little Rock of the north" : race, gender, class, and the consequences of mass incarceration
  • Suffer the women : pain and perfection in a medicalized world
  • "It's all in my head" : suffering, PTSD, and the triumph of the therapeutic
  • Higher powers : the unholy alliance of religion, self-help ideology, and the State
  • "Suffer the children" : fostering the caste of the ill and afflicted
  • Gender, drugs, and jail : "a system designed for us to fail"
  • Conclusion : the real questions and a blueprint for moving forward.

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