Mean Lives, Mean Laws - Oklahoma''s Women Prisoners

Oklahoma has long held the dubious honour of having the highest female incarceration rate in the US. In this compelling new book, Susan Sharp sets out to discover just what has gone so wrong in the state - and what that might tell us about trends in female incarceration across the US. 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.

List of contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1 Mean Lives: A Theoretical Framework
2 Mean Laws: The Rise in Female Imprisonment
3 Mean Women or Mean Lives? Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Abuse of Women Prisoners
4 The Prison Experience
5 Going Back Again by Juanita Ortiz
6 Coming Home and Staying Out
7 The Children and Their Caregivers
8 Winds of Change
9 Lessons Learned and Moving Forward
Appendix A Research Methods
Appendix B Oklahoma Children of Incarcerated Parents
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Sharp, Susan F

Product details

• Authors: Susan F Sharp, Susan F. Sharp, Susan F./ Ortiz Sharp
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.09.2014
• EAN: 9780813562759
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6275-9
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Critical Issues in Crime and S; Critical Issues in Crime and Society; Critical Issues in Crime and S
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories