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[N]Ot A Story To Pass On: Constructing Mothers Who Kill, Susan Ayres
[N]Ot A Story To Pass On: Constructing Mothers Who Kill, Susan Ayres
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Toni Morrison has said in her Nobel acceptance speech, “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” How we “do language” in judicial decisions about infanticide can perhaps be compared to and informed by fiction such as Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
Beloved provides a fictional account of the life of a historical woman, a slave who escaped to freedom and then attempted to kill all four of her children, successfully killing one when her master came to claim her under the Fugitive Slave Act. In addition to …
Neighborhood, Crime, And Incarceration In New York City, Jeffery Fagan, Valerie West, Jan Holland
Neighborhood, Crime, And Incarceration In New York City, Jeffery Fagan, Valerie West, Jan Holland
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Several new studies suggest that social and spatial incarceration of young males has become part of the developmental ecology of adolescence in the nation's poorest neighborhoods. This concentration began in the 1970s, and has grown steadily through the last quarter century.The story of young men such as Cesar in Random Family illustrates the pervasive effects of both direct and vicarious prison experiences for young men and women in poor neighborhoods. Studies of street life such as Random Family, Code of the Streets, and American Project show how these experiences are now internalized in the social and psychological fabric of neighborhood …