{"product_id":"breaking-women-jill-a-mccorkel-9780814761489","title":"Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2014 Division of Women and Crime Distinguished Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2013 C. Wright Mills Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompelling interviews uncover why tough drug policies disproportionately impact women in the American prison system\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince 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 \u003ci\u003eBreaking Women\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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. The prisoners are left feeling lost and alienated in the end, and many never truly address their addiction as the programs' organizers may have hoped. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA fascinating and yet sobering study, \u003ci\u003eBreaking Women\u003c\/i\u003e foregrounds the gendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering a vivid account of how the contemporary penal system impacts individual lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jill A. McCorkel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814761488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814761489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/16\/2013 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2016 pg. 41","brand":"Jill A. McCorkel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086918889727,"sku":"9780814761489","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dd2a6952-b275-4954-9b54-ea48135eb3fc.jpg?v=1769097319","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/breaking-women-jill-a-mccorkel-9780814761489","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}