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Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment

by Jill A. McCorkel

New York Univ. 2013. 272p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780814761489. $85.

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McCorkel (sociology & criminal justice, Villanova Univ.) interviews incarcerated women and prison staff to study "habilitation" drug treatment and its debilitating effects on the women it was intended to help. Further, she raises pointed questions about for-profit correctional institutions.

Reviewed by Joan Pedzich , Jul 01, 2016

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