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Can't Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility
Can't Catch a Break Gender Jail Drugs and the Limits of Personal Responsibility
Author: Susan Starr Sered, Maureen Norton-Hawk
Based on five years of fieldwork in Boston, Can?t Catch a Break documents the day-to-day lives of forty women as they struggle to survive sexual abuse, violent communities, ineffective social and therapeutic programs, discriminatory local and federal policies, criminalization, incarceration, and a broad cultural consensus that views suffering as...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520282797
ISBN-10: 0520282795
Publication Date: 9/12/2014
Pages: 232
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
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