{"product_id":"mean-lives-mean-laws-oklahomas-women-prisoners-critical-issues-in-crime-and-society-paperback-9780813562759","title":"Mean Lives Mean Laws Oklahomas Women Prisoners","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sharp is a leading expert on women in prison and she continues her record of outstanding scholarship with this work. \u003ci\u003eMean Lives, Mean Laws\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"No one is better poised to write a scholarly book on incarcerated women and no state is more appropriate to study than Oklahoma. \u003ci\u003eMean Lives, Mean Laws\u003c\/i\u003e is historically, theoretically, and methodologically remarkable. But even more importantly, the self-reported rates and words of real incarcerated women about their harsh lives before, in, after, and sometimes upon re-entry to prison are powerful testimonies to how the U.S. system is fundamentally flawed in responding to women and girls as victims and offenders.\" -- Joanne Belknap * author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Sharp truly cares about incarcerated women and has devoted her life to convincing state bureaucrats to reform the ways they are treated in Oklahoma, possibly the most conservative state in the union and definitely the one with the highest rate of female incarceration.\" * Women's Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e1 Mean Lives: A Theoretical Framework \u003cbr\u003e2 Mean Laws: The Rise in Female Imprisonment \u003cbr\u003e3 Mean Women or Mean Lives? Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Abuse of Women Prisoners \u003cbr\u003e4 The Prison Experience \u003cbr\u003e5 Going Back Again by Juanita Ortiz\u003cbr\u003e6 Coming Home and Staying Out \u003cbr\u003e7 The Children and Their Caregivers \u003cbr\u003e8 Winds of Change \u003cbr\u003e9 Lessons Learned and Moving Forward \u003cbr\u003eAppendix A Research Methods \u003cbr\u003eAppendix B Oklahoma Children of Incarcerated Parents \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405784326487,"sku":"9780813562759","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mean-lives-mean-laws-oklahomas-women-prisoners-critical-issues-in-crime-and-society-paperback-9780813562759","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}