Entry Lessons - The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their Futures After Incarceration (Leap Jorja)(Pevná vazba)

Through oral histories, interviews, embedded observation, and research, the daily struggles of women returning to life after incarceration and concrete solutions to the seemingly hopeless issue. At the end of 2019 in the United States, women comprised the fastest growing population within the criminal justice system. Despite this fact, their journey through this system has not received extensive attention; it is only beginning to be documented. As a result, the impact of women's incarceration and reentry--both on their own lives and in the lives of their children and their families--is neither well understood nor effectively confronted. Sociologist Jorja Leap argues that all aspects of these women's journey must be illuminated to fully grasp the issues. Leap explores first the traumas girls and women suffer, then the particular challenges faced by women in the
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