Whose higher power? Criminalized women confront the "Twelve steps"

Feminist Criminology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 308-332

  Sered, Susan ^a   Norton Hawk, Maureen ^a  

^a SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ethnographic research; reentry from prison to community; religion; social constructions of female deviance; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053644428     PISSN: 15570851     EISSN: 1557086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1557085111420557     Document Type: Article

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