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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sharp, Susan F., 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Colección:Critical issues in crime and society.
Temas:
Women prisoners > Oklahoma.
Female offenders > Rehabilitation > Oklahoma.
Reformatories for women > Oklahoma.
Corrections > Oklahoma.
Children of prisoners > Oklahoma.
Prisonnières > Oklahoma.
Criminelles > Réhabilitation > Oklahoma.
Prisons de femmes > Oklahoma.
Services correctionnels > Oklahoma.
Enfants de prisonniers > Oklahoma.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Children of prisoners
Corrections
Female offenders > Rehabilitation
Reformatories for women
Women prisoners
Oklahoma
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 190 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813562773
0813562775

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