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

• Autore: Golden Renny
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.82/95/0973
• Soggetto topico: Prisoners' families - United States; Women prisoners - United States; Women prisoners - Family relationships - United States; Children of women prisoners - United States
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: War on the family
• ISBN: 1-135-93969-1; 0-415-94671-9; 0-203-94283-3; 1-135-93970-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806810003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II