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

Sered, Susan Starr; Norton?hawk, Maureen

ISBN 10: 0520282795 / ISBN 13: 9780520282797

Published by University of California Press, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Can't Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520282795
• ISBN 13: 9780520282797
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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.

As an additional teaching tool, instructors can find updates about the women in Can't Catch a Break on Susan's blog at http://susan.sered.name/blog/category/cant-catch-a-break/.

About the Author

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.