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Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment

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Description for Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment Paperback. Discusses the gendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering a vivid account of how the contemporary penal system impacts individual lives Num Pages: 283 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JKVG; JKVP1; JKVQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.

Winner of the 2014 Division of Women and Crime Distinguished Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology
Finalist for the 2013 C. Wright Mills Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Compelling interviews uncover why tough drug policies disproportionately impact women in the American prison system
Since the 1980s, when the War on Drugs kicked into high gear and prison populations soared, the increase in women’s rate of incarceration has steadily outpaced that of men. As a result, women’s prisons in the US have suffered perhaps the most drastically from ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
Number of Pages
283
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814761496
SKU
V9780814761496
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About Jill A. McCorkel
Jill A. McCorkel is Associate Professor of Sociology at Villanova University, and the author of Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment.

Reviews for Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment
Jill McCokels book is wonderful testimony to the power of ethnography to untangle and illuminate the complexities of otherwise hard-to-access social processes. And, despite chilling descriptions of PHW & confrontations, Breaking Women is ultimately satisfying to read because of McCorkels stimulating grasp of the social, political, economic, philosophical, and human rights issues raised by prison regimes that combine close surveillance ... Read more

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