Beverly R. Fletcher  Lynda Dixon Shaver  Dreama G. Moon (Editor)

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From The Publisher
From the Foreword by George Henderson: "Perhaps nothing captures the debilitating effects of sexism more vividly than [this] in-depth study of women incarcerated in our correctional institutions. Beneath the statistics lie a human tragedy of a magnitude most people cannot fully comprehend. A disproportionate number of women are wasting away in non-rehabilitative institutions that perpetuate rather than correct criminal behaviors. The editors and contributors to this book capture cogent slices of life of some of the role players in the prison drama. And they do so with the sensitive touch of social surgeons who carefully lift and examine one layer of human behavior and then another. But they do not stop there. They also examine some of the attitudes, beliefs, and values of incarcerated women and their keepers (prison staff). The total work is an insightful glimpse of a neglected subculture."

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Table of Contents

	Illustrations
	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. 1	The Population	1
1	Introduction	5
2	The Woman Prisoner	15
3	Self-Esteem and the Woman Prisoner	27
4	Patterns of Substance Use among Women in Prison	45
5	Abuse and the Woman Prisoner	55
6	African American Women in Prison	65
7	Women on Death Row	75
Pt. 2	The Institution	91
8	Perspectives on Correctional Organizations	93
9	Attitudes of Correctional Staff	111
10	The Relationship between Language Culture and Recidivism among Women Offenders	119
11	Toward an Integrated Theory of Female Criminality and Incarceration	135
12	Conclusions	147
	References	153
	Index	169
	About the Contributors	185

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