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Breaking women : gender, race, and the new politics of imprisonment /
Since the 1980s, when the War on Drugs kicked into high gear and prison populations soared, the increase in women's rate of incarceration has steadily outpaced that of men. In this book, the author draws upon four years of on-the-ground research in a major US women's prison to uncover why...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Since the 1980s, when the War on Drugs kicked into high gear and prison populations soared, the increase in women's rate of incarceration has steadily outpaced that of men. In this book, the author draws upon four years of on-the-ground research in a major US women's prison to uncover why tougher drug policies have so greatly affected those incarcerated there, and how the very nature of punishment in women's detention centers has been deeply altered as a result. Through compelling interviews with prisoners and state personnel, the author reveals that popular so-called "habilitation" drug treatment programs force women to accept a view of themselves as inherently damaged, aberrant addicts in order to secure an earlier release. These programs work to enforce stereotypes of deviancy that ultimately humiliate and degrade the women. The prisoners are left feeling lost and alienated in the end, and many never truly address their addiction as the programs' organizers may have hoped. A fascinating and yet sobering study, this book foregrounds the gendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering an account of how the penal system impacts individual lives. -- Publisher description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814789483 081478948X |