Qualitative Criminology (QC)
Abstract
"Using a feminist strain approach, Susan Sharp’s Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma’s Women Prisoners, investigates the impact of incarceration on women in the Oklahoma prison system and their families. Oklahoma incarcerates women at a rate of 135 per 100,000, the highest in the nation. The book examines this high incarceration rate by investigating factors such as childhood abuse and neglect which may continue into adulthood and that contribute to women’s imprisonment. Sharp makes it clear that once in prison there are few avenues for the women to obtain education and healthcare or to maintain relationships with family on the outside."
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Recommended Citation
Bellamy, Kerri
(2015)
"S.F. Sharp, Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma’s Women Prisoners,"
Qualitative Criminology (QC): Vol. 3:
No.
1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://dc.swosu.edu/qc/vol3/iss1/9
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