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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Barbara R Price; Natalie J Sokoloff |
| ISBN: | 0072463996 9780072463996 |
| OCLC Number: | 51518559 |
| Description: | xxii, 589 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I. Theories and facts about women offenders. 1. The criminal law and women / Natalie J. Sokoloff, Barbara Raffel Price, and Jeanne Flavin -- 2. Feminism for the mainstream criminologist: an invitation / Jeanne Flavin -- 3. Feminist theories of women's crime: robbery as a case study / Jody Miller -- 4. Tenuous borders: girls transferred to adult court / Emily Gaarder and Joanne Belknap -- 5. Trends in female criminality: is crime still a man's world? / Darrell Steffensmeier and Jennifer Schwartz -- 6. Contemporary explanations of women's crime / Darrell Steffensmeier and Jennifer Schwartz -- 7. A reserve army: women and the drug market / Lisa Maher -- 8. Prostitution and the globalization of sex workers' rights / Kamala Kempadoo -- 9. The war on drugs and the war on abortion / Lynn M. Paltrow -- Part 2. Women and prison. 10. Women and imprisonment in the United States: the gendered consequences of the U.S. imprisonment binge / Barbara Owen -- 11. Women in prison: researching race in three national contexts (The Netherlands, Cuba, and the United States) / Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Angela Y. Davis. 12. Women of color, globalization, and the politics of incarceration / Julie Sudbury -- 13. Resistance and survivance: cultural genocide and imprisoned native women / Luana Ross -- 14. Defeminizing and dehumanizing female murderers: depictions of lesbians on death row / Kathryn Ann Farr -- 15. Mothers in prison and their children / Diane F. Reed and Edward L. Reed -- 16. Stopping abuse in prison / Nina Siegal -- 17. Progressive rhetoric, regressive policies: Canadian prisons for women / Karlene Faith -- Part 3. Women victims and survivors of crime. The victimization of girls and women by boys and men: competing analytical frameworks / Andrew Karmen -- 18. Doing violence to women: research synthesis on the victimization of women / Neil Websdale and Meda Chesney-Lind -- 19. Gender violence: rape and sexual assault / Kathryn Feltey -- 20. Rape, racism, and the law / Jennifer Wriggins -- 21. Fear and the perception of alternatives: asking "Why battered women don't leave" is the wrong question / Angela Browne -- 22. Women's realities: defining violence against women by immigration, race, and class / Shamita Das Dasgupta -- 23. Leaving a second closet: outing partner violence in same-sex couples / Carolyn M. West -- 24. Domestic violence against wives of police officers / Carolyn Renae Griggs -- 25. Can restorative justice reduce battering? / Lois Presser and Emily Gaarder -- 26. Gender, power, and harassment / Georganne Rundblad -- 27. Women, labor, and migration: the position of trafficked women and strategies for support / Marjan Wijers -- Dreams ending in nightmares: many immigrant women, girls trapped in sex industry / Newsday. Part 4. Women workers in the criminal justice system. 29. Overwhelming evidence: gender and race bias in the courts / Lynn Hecht Schafran -- 30. Women in black: are female judges more compassionate? / Jeffery Toobin -- 31. Invisible no more: a social history of women in the U.S. policing / Dorothy Moses Schulz -- 32. Current barriers and future promise for women in policing / Penny Harrington and Kimberley A. Lonsway -- 33. Lesbians in policing: perceptions and work experiences within the macho cop culture / Susan L. Miller, Kay B. Forest, and Nancy C. Jurik -- 34. The interactive effects of race and sex on women police officers / Susan E. Martin -- 35. Women in conflict: an analysis of women correctional officers / Joanne Belknap -- 36. Affirmative action, multiculturalism, and criminology / Nanci Koser Wilson and Imogene L. Moyer -- Addendum to chapter 26 / Nancy Jurik and Gray Cavender. |
| Responsibility: | Barbara Raffel Price and Natalie J. Sokoloff, editors. |
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