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Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars
Carolyn Sufrin
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Description for Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars
hardcover. Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation's jails every year. What happens to them as they gestate their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In this book, the author explores how, in this time when public safety is in disarray and when incarceration has become a central strategy for managing the poor, jail has become a safety net. Num Pages: 328 pages, 5 halftones, scattered. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSJ1; JHMC; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation's jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In this time when the public safety net is frayed, incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor. Using her ethnographic fieldwork and clinical work as an ob-gyn in a women's jail, Carolyn Sufrin explores how jail has, paradoxically, become a place where women can find care. Focusing on the experiences of incarcerated pregnant women as well as on the practices of the jail guards and health providers who care for ... Read more
Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation's jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In this time when the public safety net is frayed, incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor. Using her ethnographic fieldwork and clinical work as an ob-gyn in a women's jail, Carolyn Sufrin explores how jail has, paradoxically, become a place where women can find care. Focusing on the experiences of incarcerated pregnant women as well as on the practices of the jail guards and health providers who care for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
California University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520288669
SKU
V9780520288669
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About Carolyn Sufrin
Carolyn Sufrin is a medical anthropologist and an obstetrician-gynecologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Reviews for Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars
"An important and timely book, Jailcare lays bare how we have neglected the social safety net and distorted the ways in which we care for our most vulnerable and marginalized citizens by enacting policies that devalue the lives of women and their children."
Journal of Children and Poverty
"Insightful and convincing."
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute ... Read more
Journal of Children and Poverty
"Insightful and convincing."
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute ... Read more