Name: Mean Lives and Mean Laws: Oklahoma's Women Prisoners (Critical Issues in Crime and Society) (en Inglés)
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Author: Susan F. Sharp
ISBN: 9780813562759

portada Mean Lives and Mean Laws: Oklahoma's Women Prisoners (Critical Issues in Crime and Society) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Rutgers University Press

Autor

Susan F. Sharp

Año

2014

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

210

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780813562759

Categorías

Criminología

Mean Lives and Mean Laws: Oklahoma's Women Prisoners (Critical Issues in Crime and Society) (en Inglés)

Susan F. Sharp (Autor) · Rutgers University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Oklahoma has long held the dubious honour 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 trends in female incarceration nationwide. The culmination of over a decade of original research, Mean Lives, Mean Laws exposes a Kafkaesque criminal justice system, one that has no problem with treating women as collateral damage in the War on Drugs or with stripping female prisoners of their parental rights. Yet it also reveals the individual histories of women who were jailed in Oklahoma, providing intimate portraits of their lives before, during, and after their imprisonment. We witness the impoverished and abusive conditions in which many of these women were raised; we get a vivid portrait of their everyday lives behind bars; and we glimpse the struggles that lead many ex-convicts to fall back into the penal system. Through an innovative methodology that combines statistical rigour with extensive personal interviews, Sharp shows how female incarceration affects not only individuals, but also families and communities. Putting a human face on a growing social problem, Mean Lives, Mean Laws raises important questions about both the state of Oklahoma and the state of the nation.