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**Winner of the 2014 Division of Women and Crime Distinguished Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology** **Finalist for the 2013 C. Wright Mills Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems** **Compelling interviews uncover why tough drug policies disproportionately impact women in the American prison system** Since 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 __Breaking Women__, 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. Through compelling interviews with prisoners and state personnel, McCorkel reveals that popular so-called “habilitation” drug treatment programs forc

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Author

Jill A. McCorkel

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814789483

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Sociology, Social_sciences