| Description |
xxv, 190 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Prisoners' families -- United States.
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Prisoners' families. |
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United States. |
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Women prisoners -- United States.
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Women prisoners. |
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Women prisoners -- Family relationships -- United States.
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Women prisoners -- Family relationships. |
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Children of women prisoners -- United States.
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Children of women prisoners. |
| ISBN |
0415946719 paperback alkaline paper |
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0415946700 hardback alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780415946704 |
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9780415946711 |
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