War on the family : mothers in prison and the families they leave behind /

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When most people think of prisoners, they think of men. Yet women are the fastest growing prison population. Perhaps more surprising, some 75% of women behind bars are mothers. Each year these mothers leave behind 350,000 children under the age of 18. More than half of mothers in state prisons never...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Golden, Renny
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2005.
Temas:
Prisoners' families > United States.
Women prisoners > United States.
Women prisoners > Family relationships > United States.
Children of women prisoners > United States.
Familles de prisonniers > États-Unis.
Prisonnières > États-Unis.
Prisonnières > Relations familiales > États-Unis.
Enfants de prisonnières > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Children of women prisoners
Prisoners' families
Women prisoners
Women prisoners > Family relationships
Kind
Weibliche Gefangene
Familie
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Collateral damage in the war on drugs
  • Joanetta's world
  • Lost childhood : a family narrative
  • Family narratives of survival and sorrow : Bell, Melvanie, Nadia, and Louella
  • Expendable bodies, racialized policies
  • Incarceration : theater of terror
  • Teen mothers and the infants who saved them
  • Children in the other America
  • Gonna rise : Pam's story
  • Eye on the prize : theorizing change
  • What is to be done in the meantime?
  • Beating the odds
  • Addendum: Support programs for families of incarcerated mothers.

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