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For dear life : women's decriminalization and human rights in focus /

For Dear Life chronicles feminist and artist Carol Jacobsen's deep commitment to the causes of justice and human rights, and focuses a critical lens on an American criminal-legal regime that imparts racist, gendered, and classist modes of punishment to women lawbreakers. Jacobsen's tireles...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jacobsen, Carol (Artist) (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Women prisoners > Civil rights > United States. Female offenders > United States. Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States. Human rights > United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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