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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790646903321

Autore

Golden Renny

Titolo

War on the family : mothers in prison and the families they leave behind / / Renny Golden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-93969-1

0-415-94671-9

0-203-94283-3

1-135-93970-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

362.82/95/0973

Soggetti

Prisoners' families - United States

Women prisoners - United States

Women prisoners - Family relationships - United States

Children of women prisoners - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Collateral damage in the war on drugs -- Joanetta's world -- Lost childhood : a family narrative -- Family narratives of survival and sorrow : Bell, Melvanie, Nadia, and Louella -- Expendable bodies, racialized policies -- Incarceration : theater of terror -- Teen mothers and the infants who saved them -- Children in the other America -- Gonna rise : Pam's story -- Eye on the prize : theorizing change -- What is to be done in the meantime? -- Beating the odds -- Addendum: Support programs for families of incarcerated mothers.

Sommario/riassunto

In this timely book, renowned criminologist and activist Renny Golden sheds light on the women behind bars and the 350,000 children they leave behind. In exposing the fastest growing prison population-a direct result of Reagan's War on Drugs-Golden sets up new framework for thinking about how to address the situation of mothers in prison, the risks and needs of their children and the implications of current judicial policies.