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Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma´s Women Prisoners
Susan F. Sharp
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Description for Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma´s Women Prisoners
Hardback. .
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 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 ... Read more
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 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813562766
SKU
V9780813562766
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About Susan F. Sharp
SUSAN F. SHARP is the David Ross Boyd Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. Co-Chair of the Oklahoma Legislative Task Force on Children of Incarcerated Parents, she has written over thirty articles, as well as the book Hidden Victims: Effects of the Death Penalty on Families of the Accused (Rutgers University Press, 2005). ... Read more
Reviews for Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma´s Women Prisoners
"Sharp is a leading expert on women in prison and she continues her record of outstanding scholarship with this work. Mean Lives, Mean Laws will make a much needed contribution to policy studies of criminology and criminal justice."
Barbara Owen
author of In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison
"No one is better poised to write ... Read more
Barbara Owen
author of In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison
"No one is better poised to write ... Read more