The issues of women involved in the criminal justice system, the impact incarceration of women has on children, and the specific issues formerly incarcerated women face upon reentry into their community are regarded as critical areas of research. This paper focuses on issues that lie at the heart of the broader discussion of women and justice and fall under the general heading of collateral damage experienced in the modern era of mass incarceration. A research agenda is needed that is woman-centered, not offender-centered, and not even woman-offender-centered. As important as it is to understand the consequences of the increase in women in prison, and the intersection of drug abuse and the war on drugs on women, the ripple effects of this social experiment are far reaching and the research agenda must be just as far reaching. References