Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility, 1st Edition eBook

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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/.

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Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility 1st Edition is written by Prof. Susan Starr Sered; Prof. Maureen Norton-Hawk and published by University of California Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Can’t Catch a Break are 9780520958708, 0520958705 and the print ISBNs are 9780520282797, 0520282795. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780520282780.