This book explores the use of drugs by women in the context of incarceration; evaluates rehabilitation efforts, examines how the social construction of race and gender criminalizes the use of drugs by women, and shows how rhetoric which labels prisoners as less eligible for resources than ?free? citizens shapes the penal system?s focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation.
Category: Women and Prisons
O?Brien, Patricia. Making It in the “Free World”: Women in Transition From Prison (Suny Series in Women, Crime and Criminology). State University of New York Press, 200
Using first-person narratives and a review of contemporary theory, this book addresses how women return to the “free world” after single or multiple experiences of incarceration.
Owen, Barbara. In The Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women?s Prison. State University of New York Press, 1998.
Owen examines the ethnography of women in prison, women?s pathways to imprisonment, relationships inside and outside of prison, and the culture of imprisoned women.
Rafter, Nicole Hahn. Encyclopedia of Women and Crime. Oryx Press, 2000.
A reference book on women and crime. This book covers numerous themes such as crime, victims, and victimology; policing, courts, and case processing; punishment and treatment; and careers in criminal justice, police work, law, and corrections.