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Winner of the 2014 Division of Women and Crime Distinguished Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology
Finalist for the 2013 C. Wright Mills Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems Since the 1980s, when the War on Drugs kicked into high gear and prison populations soared, the increase in women’s rate of incarceration has steadily outpaced that of men. As a result, women’s prisons in the US have suffered perhaps the most drastically from the overcrowding and recurrent budget crises that have plagued the penal system since harsher drugs laws came into effect. In Breaking Women, Jill A. McCorkel draws upon four years of on-the-ground research in a major US women’s prison to uncover why tougher drug policies have so greatly affected those incarcerated there, and how the very nature of punishment in women’s detention centers has been deeply altered as a result. Through compelling interviews with prisoners and state personnel, McCorkel reveals that popular so-called “habilitation” drug treatment programs force women to accept a view of themselves as inherently damaged, aberrant addicts in order to secure an earlier release. These programs were created as a way to enact stricter punishments on female drug offenders while remaining sensitive to their perceived feminine needs for treatment, yet they instead work to enforce stereotypes of deviancy that ultimately humiliate and degrade the women. The prisoners are left feeling lost and alienated in the end, and many never truly address their addiction as the programs’ organizers may have hoped. A fascinating and yet sobering study, Breaking Women foregrounds the gendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering a vivid account of how the contemporary penal system impacts individual lives. Instructor's Guide
- Sales Rank: #345974 in Books
- Published on: 2013-08-05
- Released on: 2013-08-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .72" w x 6.00" l, 1.05 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 283 pages
Review
"Breaking Women is a remarkable achievement. Jill McCorkel's long-awaited account raises critical questions about the social and psychological consequences of the current trend toward punitive, for-profit 'habilitation.' Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this is prison ethnography at its best." -Lorna Rhodes,author of Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison
"It has been observed that the eclipse of the prison ethnography corresponded almost perfectly with the rise of mass incarceration. This hugely important book shows precisely why we need to reverse both trends. The women’s stories that are so vividly captured in this work demonstrate in painful detail that efforts to ‘break’ human beings, even if in the name of reform, only succeed at creating more victims."-Shadd Maruna,author of Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives
"This is the book so many sociologists of punishment, law, and gender have been waiting for. Beautifully written and thoughtfully argued, Breaking Women takes readers inside the U.S. penal system to analyze how its overall structure and concrete practices changed in the era of mass incarceration. Through a captivating and absorbing ethnographic account of a prison drug treatment program for women, the book traces how a particularly gendered mode of punishment emerged to discipline and humiliate women. In this way, McCorkel shows how our images of 'get tough' criminal policies and practices must change to encompass not only the inmate warehousing of overcrowded correctional facilities, but also some of the smaller, 'alternative' programs that reach inside inmates' heads to transform their sense of self."-Lynne Haney,author of Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire
“Based on four years of ethnography and more than 100 interviews with PHW’s stakeholders, Breaking Women is an exceptionally well-researched piece of scholarship….McCorkel seamlessly weaves together history, politics, policy, and ethnography to form a complex, yet easy-to-follow, line of argumentation.”-Teaching Sociology
"The book is an interesting, honest, and uncomplicated read, one that challenges current public views of how to care for inmates and reduce recidivism. The intended audience is foremost students and teachers in the field of sociology, criminology and gender studies, but the book is equally accessible to those interested in the prison system, its effects on women, as well as how programs meant to habilitate women are implemented, along with their rates of success or attrition."-Hennie Weiss,Metapsychology
“Jill McCokel’s book is wonderful testimony to the power of ethnography to untangle and illuminate the complexities of otherwise hard-to-access social processes. And, despite chilling descriptions of PHW ‘confrontations,’ Breaking Women is ultimately satisfying to read because of McCorkel’s stimulating grasp of the social, political, economic, philosophical, and human rights issues raised by prison regimes that combine close surveillance of the body with brainwashing techniques directed at mind control and a breaking of ‘self,’ ‘spirit,’ ‘soul.’ I strongly recommend Breaking Women to anyone with an interest in ethnography. To everyone interested in justice, human rights and the politics of imprisonment Breaking Women is recommended as essential reading.” -British Journal of Criminology
"Jill McCorkel further extends the implications of such an invisibilized incarceration of black women with her seminal monograph, Breaking Women. She delves into the hidden hallways of prisons, intimately detailing a drug treatment program that was initially tested in one of California's largest women's prisons and that has since been replicated across the United States."-WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly
"McCorkel does a superb job of bringing individual women to life for the reader, while simultaneously developing a strong and always readable theoretical analysis."-Susan Sered,Women's Review of Book
“McCorkel’s work is an invaluable contribution to the examination of the politics of gender and race in the context of privatized correctional treatment. It offers a unique insight and adds to the scarce ethnographic research on women’s prisons."-Social Service Review
"McCorkel's rich data contains the voices of prisoners and staff, which she skillfully links to larger, generally critical, theoretical perspectives on punishment."-P.S. Leighton,CHOICE
About the Author
Jill A. McCorkel is Associate Professor of Sociology at Villanova University. Her work has appeared in several leading journals, including Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, and Contexts.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
for academic and non-academic audiences alike
By PhDmom
This text has something to draw in readers from both inside and outside academia. If the topic is something that interests, you will not regret your purchase.
For academic audiences? McCorkel's comprehensive and compelling analysis will leave no scholar of modern penology unhappy. She draws on research from multiple traditions, disciplines, and perspectives to illuminate the historical, structural, economic, cultural, and social factors that fuel the racialized/gendered/classed forms of punishment we see in American prisons today. Utilizing works ranging from classics like deTocqueville to modern critical scholars like Foucault, Michelle Alexander, and Angela Davis, she crafts a sharp, integrated analysis of the state--into which she situates her ethnography of East State Correctional Institution for Women. McCorkel's ethnographic analysis, based on years of immersion in the field, is in-depth and beautifully written. She paints a vivid picture "habilitation" at East State. She outlines how it emerged, the ways prison officials initially resisted (but eventually succumbed to) the corporation's reach into their institution, and the impact it had on the lives of women who were subjected to it. Readers will have a hard time forgetting examples and images of habilitation that McCorkel conjures for her audience.
This vivid picture of habilitation--and the stories that comprise it--are arguably what non-academic audiences will find most appealing. The brilliance of the book, however, is that McCorkel, word-for-word, line-for-line, and across the entire narrative is a true practitioner of the writer's craft. She weaves together social analysis and women inmate's stories in a seamless fashion and therefore makes even the most complex argument (and theorists) palatable and engaging. I can honestly say that this is the first academic book in a LONG TIME that I picked up and then could not put down.
In short, I strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in modern punishment.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent work, a must-read for any with an interest in the modern carceral state.
By Rebecca
A must-read for any with interest in the current state and direction of mass incarceration and the carceral state. Extremely well-written, does an excellent job of documenting and discrediting a cruel brainwashing program for the junk science that it is. I want to add though that I think an even deeper understanding of the shift in techniques can be gained through also reading Tim Wise’s Under the Affluence. In short, habilitation as practiced in this program is also a reflection of the shift in American culture towards a Culture of Cruelty - outright hatred of the poor, demonization of the most vulnerable and marginalized members of society. I would argue the true end goal, behind the veil of rhetoric and leaving aside the financial reasons of the prison administration for going along with it, is really nothing more giving everybody from the counselors to the state officials and voters the visceral pleasure of kicking these vulnerable women when they are down. The shift in current policy isn’t simply towards incapacitating entire groups of society, it is also about legitimizing hatred of them and branding them hopelessly “other.” What better way to legitimize the hatred of a woman than to make her hate herself and brand herself an incurable deviant? Very Orwellian in general too, of course... almost painful to read some of the accounts of this practice. Really scary part is, given how we’ve seen carceral techniques and culture infiltrating schools as part of the school-to-prison-pipeline for the marginalized, probably only a matter of time before groups like The Company are pitching forms of this for dealing with “at-risk” youth as alternatives to pushouts (if that hasn’t happened already).
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Powerful and Compelling
By Brad Mellinger
It is rare to find a work that combines both narrative and analytical strength in the way Breaking Women does. The stories directly from the people caught in the War on Drugs are compelling enough to make the book worth reading. But the careful analysis of the political and economic factors that led to such a radical change in policy toward female offenders will offer insight to readers from any background. What happens when for-profit companies participate in prison administration and prisoner treatment? What incentives are created and for whom? How does this influence the stories that are told about crime and offenders? Are the outcomes better or worse? It doesn't take an academic background to become absorbed in the careful consideration of these topics in this book.
At a time when even some of the most conservative voices in the US are calling for a fundamental change in crime and prison policy, this book offers everyone a window into where we came from, how we got here, and why the status quo may be untenable.
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