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"Johnson gives these women visibility and voice as they relate
their lives, their crimes, and their efforts to remain connected to
families and communities...powerful."
-- "Booklist"
"Johnson's "Inner Lives" provides both a serious intervention in
the literature on prisons and a venue through which incarcerated
and formerly incarcerated Black women can speak for themselves. It
challenges readers to take action."--"Black Renaissance"
""Inner Lives" soars when the women are allowed to speak for
themselves."
--"Book"
"Johnson illuminates how the race and gender of African American
women affect how they are treated in the American criminal justice
system."
--"The Women's Review of Books"
"Johnson provides a historical look at African American women in
the U.S. criminal justice system from the colonial period to the
present."
--"Law's Social Inquiry"
The rate of women entering prison has increased nearly 400
percent since 1980, with African American women constituting the
largest percentage of this population. However, despite their
extremely disproportional representation in correctional
institutions, little attention has been paid to their experiences
within the criminal justice system.
Inner Lives provides readers the rare opportunity to intimately
connect with African American women prisoners. By presenting the
women's stories in their own voices, Paula C. Johnson captures the
reality of those who are in the system, and those who are working
to help them. Johnson offers a nuanced and compelling portrait of
this fastest-growing prison population by blending legal history,
ethnography, sociology, andcriminology. These striking and vivid
narratives are accompanied by equally compelling arguments by
Johnson on how to reform our nation's laws and social policies, in
order to eradicate existing inequalities. Her thorough and
insightful analysis of the historical and legal background of
contemporary criminal law doctrine, sentencing theories, and
correctional policies sets the stage for understanding the current
system.
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