Mean Lives, Mean Laws : Oklahoma's Women Prisoners /

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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
Autor principal: Sharp, Susan F., 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women prisoners.
Reformatories for women.
Female offenders > Rehabilitation.
Corrections.
Children of prisoners.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Enfants de prisonniers > Oklahoma.
Services correctionnels > Oklahoma.
Prisons de femmes > Oklahoma.
Criminelles > Rehabilitation > Oklahoma.
Prisonnieres > Oklahoma.
Children of prisoners > Oklahoma.
Corrections > Oklahoma.
Reformatories for women > Oklahoma.
Female offenders > Rehabilitation > Oklahoma.
Women prisoners > Oklahoma.
Oklahoma.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Mean lives: a theoretical framework
  • Mean laws: the rise in female imprisonment
  • "Mean women" or "mean lives"?: adverse childhood experiences and adult abuse of women prisoners
  • The prison experience
  • Going back again by Juanita Ortiz
  • Coming home and staying out
  • The children and their caregivers
  • Winds of change
  • Lessons learned and moving forward.

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