Women Behind Bars: Trends and Policy Issues

In the crusade to get tough on crime, policy makers have also gotten tough on women, drawing them into prisons in rapidly growing numbers. Today, incarcerated women are predominately poor, uneducated, and unskilled; are disproportionately African American and Latina young women with children; and ha...

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Autor principal: Kaplan, Mark S. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Sasser, Jennifer E.
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 1996
En:Año: 1996
Acceso en línea: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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