Chicana lives and criminal justice : voices from el barrio /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Díaz-Cotto, Juanita, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Women prisoners > California.
Female offenders > California.
Mexican American women > California > Biography.
Mexican American women > California > Social conditions.
Prisonnières > Californie.
Criminelles > Californie.
Américaines d'origine mexicaine > Californie > Biographies.
Américaines d'origine mexicaine > Californie > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
Female offenders
Mexican American women
Mexican American women > Social conditions
Women prisoners
Strafjustiz
Mexikanerin
Weibliche Gefangene
Soziale Situation
California
Kalifornien
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Pre-incarceration experiences. Latinas/os and the war on drugs
  • Families and early experiences of abuse
  • Youth arrests and placements
  • Barrios and gangs
  • Addiction
  • Staying alive : hustling and other jobs
  • Adult arrests
  • Police harassment and brutality
  • Courts and consequences
  • pt. II. Sybil Brand Institute for Women and beyond. Sybil Brand Institute for Women : the institutional setting
  • The keepers : regime and rule enforcement
  • Programs and services
  • Jailhouse economy
  • Living together : prisoner alliances and hostilities
  • Gender, sexuality, and family kinship networks
  • Outside looking in : third parties
  • Prisoner complaints and resistance
  • Picking up the pieces
  • Concluding remarks and reflections
  • Appendix A. Sociodemographic characteristics of Chicana Pintas interviewed
  • Appendix B. Most frequent offenses leading to arrest.

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