gender, race, and the new politics of imprisonment
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- McCorkel, Jill A.
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- gedetineerden, etniciteit, drugs, gevangenissen, beleid, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- In this publication, the author 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 interviews with prisoners and state personnel, she 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.