Breaking women : gender, race, and the new politics of imprisonment /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCorkel, Jill A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Temas:
Female offenders > Rehabilitation > United States.
Women prisoners > Services for > United States.
Corrections > United States.
Criminelles > Réhabilitation > États-Unis.
Prisonnières > Services > États-Unis.
Services correctionnels > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Corrections
Female offenders > Rehabilitation
Women prisoners > Services for
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Searching for Red's self
  • Getting tough on women : how punishment changed
  • Taking over : the private company in the public prison
  • From good girls to real criminals : race made visible
  • The eyes are watching you : finding the real self
  • Diseased women : crack whores, bad mothers, and welfare queens
  • Rentin' out your head : navigating claims about the self
  • Unruly selves : forms of prisoner resistance
  • Conclusion : what if the cure is worse than the disease?

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