Can't Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility

by Susan Starr Sered, Maureen Norton-Hawk, Prof. Maureen Norton-Hawk

Book Overview

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 a consequence of personal flaws and bad choices. Combining hard-hitting policy analysis with an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520282787
• ISBN13: 9780520282780
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"