Can't Catch a Break
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A01=Maureen Norton-Hawk
A01=Susan Starr Sered
american prison system
american studies
Author_Maureen Norton-Hawk
Author_Susan Starr Sered
bad choices
boston
Category=JKV
civic
class and gender
criminalization
cultural studies
day to day lives
discrimination
discriminatory politics
drug abuse
drugs
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eq_society-politics
gender studies
human condition
incarceration
ineffective programs
local and federal government
mass incarceration
personal flaws
personal responsibility
prison
prison system
sexual abuse
social inequality
social programs
therapeutic programs
urban sociology
violence in society
violent communities
welfare
women
Product details
- ISBN 9780520282797
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 2014
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 intimate account of how marginalized women navigate an unforgiving world, Susan Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk shine new light on the deep and complex connections between suffering and social inequality.
Susan Starr Sered is Professor of Sociology and Senior Researcher at the Center for Women's Health and Human Rights at Suffolk University in Boston. She is the author of Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity. Read more about the women in Can't Catch a Break and Susan's research on her blog at http://susan.sered.name/blog/. Maureen Norton-Hawk is Professor of Sociology and Codirector of the Center for Crime and Justice Policy Research at Suffolk University in Boston. She has published widely in the field of women and prostitution.
