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This article examines the multiple issues that contribute to the incarceration of African American women and threaten to render these women recidivists. These issues include but are not limited to substance abuse, sexual abuse, fractured familial relations, and abusive intimate relationships. In an attempt to examine these issues, the article explores how, prior to their imprisonment, social factors contravene African American women's attempts at enforcing their traditional roles as "women." The article attempts to show that the increased incarceration of African American women is part of a cultural phenomenon that reflects their social exclusion in U.S. society.

Argues that mentor programs represent a viable strategy for delinquency prevention, using evidence from the Big Brothers/Big Sisters Project (BB/BS) and the federal Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP); includes governmental approaches, such as boot camps and waiver; since 1993, chiefly; US.