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Based on five years of fieldwork in Boston, Can't Catch a Break documents the day-to-day lives of forty women as they struggle to survive sexual abuse, violent communities, ineffective social and therapeutic programs, discriminatory local and federal policies, criminalization, incarceration, and a broad cultural consensus that views suffering as a consequence of personal flaws and bad choices. Combining hard-hitting policy analysis with an intimate account of how marginalized women navigate an unforgiving world, Susan Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk shine new light on the deep and complex connections between suffering and social inequality.

Abused women --- Female offenders --- Women drug addicts --- Responsibility --- Accountability --- Moral responsibility --- Obligation --- Ethics --- Supererogation --- Drug addicts --- Delinquent women --- Offenders, Female --- Women --- Women criminals --- Women offenders --- Criminals --- Battered women --- Victims of crimes --- Battered woman syndrome --- Social conditions. --- Social aspects --- Crime --- Abused women -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social conditions.. --- Female offenders -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social conditions.. --- Women drug addicts -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social conditions.. --- Responsibility -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Boston. --- american prison system. --- american studies. --- bad choices. --- boston. --- civic. --- class and gender. --- criminalization. --- cultural studies. --- day to day lives. --- discrimination. --- discriminatory politics. --- drug abuse. --- drugs. --- gender studies. --- human condition. --- incarceration. --- ineffective programs. --- local and federal government. --- mass incarceration. --- personal flaws. --- personal responsibility. --- prison system. --- prison. --- sexual abuse. --- social inequality. --- social programs. --- therapeutic programs. --- urban sociology. --- violence in society. --- violent communities. --- welfare. --- women.