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African American Women in the Prison System
Title: African American Women in the Prison System
Category: Social Sciences / Sociology
Details: Words: 1848 | Pages: 7.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
African American Women in the Prison System
Introduction
Minority women in America face their "double jeopardy" status daily. The lower paying jobs, the lack of resources offered and available, perceived higher numbers of violent relationships and the inability to be looked at as an equal member of American society due to the white man's standards, just to name a few. These women are looked upon as being "less than" from the time they are very young, which is the most important time …showed first 75 words of 1848 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1848 total…Y., Women in Prison-African-American women have fastest-rising incarceration rate in U.S., Essence Magazine, September Issue, 2000
Johnson, Paula C. Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison, New York: New York University Press, 2003
Richie, Beth E., Feminist Ethnographies of Women in Prison, Feminist Studies Inc., 2004
Titus Reid, Sue, Crime and Criminology, McGraw-Hill Publishing, New York, 2003<Tab/>
Women in Prison, Walking Steel, newsletter of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown, 1995
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