Breaking Women : : Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment / / Jill A. McCorkel.
Winner of the 2014 Division of Women and Crime Distinguished Scholar Award presented by the American Society of CriminologyFinalist for the 2013 C. Wright Mills Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsCompelling interviews uncover why tough drug policies disproportionatel...
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McCorkel, Jill A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Breaking Women : Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment / Jill A. McCorkel. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource : 2 black and white illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Searching for Red’s Self -- Part I. The End of Rehabilitation -- 1. Getting Tough on Women -- 2. Taking Over -- 3. From Good Girls to Real Criminals -- Part II. The Practice of Habilitation -- 4. The Eyes Are Watching You -- 5. Diseased Women -- Part III. Contesting the Boundaries of Self -- 6. Rentin’ Out Your Head -- 7. Unruly Selves -- Conclusion. What If the Cure Is Worse Than the Disease? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- INDEX -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Winner of the 2014 Division of Women and Crime Distinguished Scholar Award presented by the American Society of CriminologyFinalist for the 2013 C. Wright Mills Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsCompelling interviews uncover why tough drug policies disproportionately impact women in the American prison systemSince 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 the overcrowding and recurrent budget crises that have plagued the penal system since harsher drugs laws came into effect. In Breaking Women, Jill A. McCorkel draws upon four years of on-the-ground research in a major US women’s prison to uncover why tougher drug policies have so greatly affected those incarcerated there, and how the very nature of punishment in women’s detention centers has been deeply altered as a result. Through compelling interviews with prisoners and state personnel, McCorkel reveals that popular so-called “habilitation” drug treatment programs force women to accept a view of themselves as inherently damaged, aberrant addicts in order to secure an earlier release. These programs were created as a way to enact stricter punishments on female drug offenders while remaining sensitive to their perceived feminine needs for treatment, yet they instead work to enforce stereotypes of deviancy that ultimately humiliate and degrade the women. Theprisoners are left feeling lost and alienated in the end, and many never truly address their addiction as the programs’ organizers may have hoped. A fascinating and yet sobering study, Breaking Women foregrounds thegendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering a vivid account of how thecontemporary penal system impacts individual lives. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Corrections United States. Female offenders Rehabilitation United States. Women prisoners Services for United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814761489 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814789483.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814789483 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814789483/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Searching for Red’s Self -- Part I. The End of Rehabilitation -- 1. Getting Tough on Women -- 2. Taking Over -- 3. From Good Girls to Real Criminals -- Part II. The Practice of Habilitation -- 4. The Eyes Are Watching You -- 5. Diseased Women -- Part III. Contesting the Boundaries of Self -- 6. Rentin’ Out Your Head -- 7. Unruly Selves -- Conclusion. What If the Cure Is Worse Than the Disease? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- INDEX -- About the Author |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Searching for Red’s Self -- Part I. The End of Rehabilitation -- 1. Getting Tough on Women -- 2. Taking Over -- 3. From Good Girls to Real Criminals -- Part II. The Practice of Habilitation -- 4. The Eyes Are Watching You -- 5. Diseased Women -- Part III. Contesting the Boundaries of Self -- 6. Rentin’ Out Your Head -- 7. Unruly Selves -- Conclusion. What If the Cure Is Worse Than the Disease? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- INDEX -- About the Author |
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