Women in Trouble
Connecting Women’s Law Violation to their Histories of Abuse
This book addresses one of the more alarming findings to emerge about women in prison: the fact that 80 percent report histories of physical and sexual abuse.
About the book
This book addresses one of the more alarming findings to emerge about women in prison: the fact that 80 percent report histories of physical and sexual abuse.
What people are saying
Karen Toole-Mitchell, Winnipeg Free Press“Elizabeth allows the women in this book to speak their own truth. It’s a graphic, shocking, depressing and absolutely necessary account of the connections between histories of abuse and trouble with the law.”