Mean Lives, Mean Laws

Autorentext

SUSAN F. SHARP is the David Ross Boyd Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. Co-Chair of the Oklahoma Legislative Task Force on Children of Incarcerated Parents, she has written over thirty articles, as well as the book "Hidden Victims: Effects of the Death Penalty on Families of the Accused "(Rutgers University Press, 2005).

Klappentext

Oklahoma has long held the dubious honor of having the highest female incarceration rate in the US, nearly twice the national average. In this compelling new book, sociologist Susan Sharp sets out to discover just what has gone so wrong in the state of Oklahoma—and what that might tell us about trends in female incarceration.