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Freeing Tammy : women, drugs, and incarceration / Jody Raphael.
Van Pelt Library HV6626.2 .R364 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raphael, Jody.
- Series:
- Raphael, Jody. Women, poverty, and violence trilogy
- The Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law
- The women, poverty, and violence trilogy
- Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abused women--United States--Case studies.
- Abused women.
- Women--Drug use--United States--Case studies.
- Women.
- Female offenders--United States--Case studies.
- Female offenders.
- Women--Drug use.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 219 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Northeastern University Press ; Hanover, NH : Published by University Press of New England, [2007]
- Summary:
- Raised in a middle-class family, Tammara (Tammy) Johnson's childhood sexual assault and domestic violence led her to a nineteen-year heroin habit and an erroneous conviction for selling drugs. This book, the third in a trilogy about Chicago women by noted author Jody Raphael, shows the detrimental effects of incarceration on an already abused woman. Using Tammy's life and words, Raphael shows how childhood sexual assault and domestic violence can lead to dysfunctional coping strategies like drug addiction and crime.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Betrayal
- Trial
- County jail
- Prison
- Numbing
- Minimum security
- Terrence alone
- The basement
- Forgetting
- Out of the basement
- Epilogue : back to county.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781555536725
- 1555536727
- 9781555536732
- 1555536735
- OCLC:
- 76167451
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