"Susan F. Sharp, Ph.D.," is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Oklahoma. Her areas of interest encompass gender and the criminal justice system, gender and deviance, and the effects of criminal justice policies on families. Prior to obtaining her doctorate, she worked as a substance abuse counselor, primarily with offender populations. Recent research includes work published in "Women & Criminal Justice, The Prison Journal, Deviant Behavior, Journal of the Oklahoma Criminal Justice Research Consortium, Journal of Youth & Adolescence," and "Journal of Contemporary Ethnogr