Freeing Tammy: Women, Drugs, and Incarceration (New England

Freeing Tammy: Women, Drugs, and Incarceration (New England Gender, Crime & Law)
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Tammara (Tammy) Johnson is an African-American woman in her fifties, an ex-addict with a 19-year heroin habit and a felony record, who works as the job development trainer for an in-patient drug treatment program in south suburban Chicago. Raised in a middle-class family, Tammy left home early because she could not live up to parental expectations. She turned to drugs and crime and was eventually incarcerated for selling drugs.

This book, the third in a trilogy about Chicago women by noted author Jody Raphael, is the story of Tammyâ€™s metamorphosis. Raphaelâ€™s narrative, based on extensive interviews with Tammy and family members, shows the detrimental effects of incarceration on an already abused woman and illuminates Tammyâ€™s efforts to release herself from the literal and figurative prisons of abuse, addiction, crime, fear, and hopelessness.

Raphael uses the transit of Tammyâ€™s lifeâ€”from childhood trauma to adult rehabilitationâ€”to investigate the linkages between childhood sexual assault and domestic violence with womenâ€™s drug addiction and then with crime. She uses Tammyâ€™s own words to demonstrate how childhood sexual assault and violence can make women poor and how dysfunctional coping strategies keep them poor. Tammyâ€™s story is a reminder that violence against women and girls economically impoverishes them by trapping them in addictions leading to crime and other self-destructive activities.
Country USA
Brand Northeastern University Press
Manufacturer Northeastern University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781555536732
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Northeastern University Press
Manufacturer	Northeastern University Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781555536732
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Freeing Tammy: Women, Drugs, and Incarceration (New England Gender, Crime & Law)

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