Misconceiving Mothers Pb (Gender Family And The Law)

Misconceiving mothers -gift able –book is in like new condition signed by the author balance of the book is unmarked –spine is tight/cover glossy- check the pictures Case study of how public policy about reproduction & crime is made-uses secondary research & first-hand interviews with legislators and prosecutors to examine attitudes toward the criminalization and/or medicalization of drug use during pregnancy by the legislature & criminal justice system in California. -attributes-circumstance- four interrelated causes: the gendered nature of the social problem; the recasting of the problem as fundamentally "medical" rather than "criminal"; the dynamic nature of the process of institutionalization; the specific features of the legal institutions - the legislature and prosecutors' offices -- that became prominent in the case-Misconceiving Motherstells the story of a particular problem at a particular time - place how the California legislature & district attorneys grappled with pregnant women's drug use in the late 1980s & early 1990s...Book tells a more general story- political nature of contemporary social problems.Story it tells is political not just because it deals with the character of political institutions- because the process itself - the nature of the claims-making concern the power to control the allocation of state resources...A number of studies have looked at how the initial criminalization of social problems takes place....Misconceiving Motherslooks at the process by which a criminalized social problem is institutionalized through the attitudes and policies of elite decision-makers.- Laura E. Gomezis Acting Professor of Law and Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles. -Ruth Reaser..LAXVespa Los Angeles-I carefully pack your book-your books-wrapped,not co-mingled,you get the copy you were viewing carefully packed to protect it from damage in transit - generally 7 Days Coast-to-Coast quicker if you're closer ...Misconceiving Mothers 2770 self help 3