The Criminal Justice System and Women: Offenders, Prisoners, Victims, and Workers

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Edition: 3rd
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Pub. Date: 2003-07-01
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary

Consisting of original essays commissioned for the volume from leading scholars, as well as a number of recently published, important articles in the field, this anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which women affect and are affected by crime and the criminal justice system. Analysis is grounded in feminist scholarship and activism, and anchored in perspectives that orient women's crime, imprisonment, victimization, and survival in a race, class, and gender perspective.

Table of Contents

* Indicates an article written explicitly for this edition

Preface

PART I: THEORIES AND FACTS ABOUT WOMEN OFFENDERS

Web Sites - Women Offenders

Introduction to PART I

1. Natalie J. Sokoloff, Barbara Raffel Price, and Jeanne Flavin, The Criminal Law and Women (updated)

2. Jeanne Flavin, Feminism for the Mainstream Criminologist: An Invitation

3. Jody Miller, Feminist Theory of Women's Crime: Robbery as a Case Study.

4. Emily Gaarder and Joanne Belknap, Tenuous Borders: Girls Transferred to Adult Courts

5. Darrell Steffensmeier and Jennifer Schwartz, Trends in Female Crime: Is Crime Still a Man's World?*

6. Darrell Steffensmeier and Jennifer Schwartz, Contemporary Explanations of Women's Crime*

7. Lisa Maher, A Reserve Army: Women and the Drug Market

8. Kamala Kempadoo, Prostitution and The Globalization of Sex Worker's Rights

9. Lynn Paltrow, The War on Drugs and the War on Abortion

PART II: WOMEN AND PRISON

Web Sites - Women Prisoners

Introduction to PART II

10. Barbara Owen, Women and Imprisonment in the U.S.: The Gendered Consequences of the U.S. Imprisonment Binge

11. Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Angela Y. Davis, Women in Prison: Researching Race in Three National Contexts (Netherlands, Cuba, and U.S.)

12. Julia Sudbury, Women of Color, Globalization, and the Politics of Incarceration*

13. Luana Ross, Resistance and Survivance: Cultural Genocide and Imprisoned Native Women

14. Kathryn Ann Farr, Defeminizing and Dehumanizing Female Murderers: Depictions of Lesbians on Death Row

15. Diane F. Reed and Edward L. Reed, Mothers in Prison and Their Children

16. Nina Siegal, Stopping Abuse of Women in Prison

17. Karlene Faith, Progressive Rhetoric, Regressive Policies: Canadian Prisons for Women*

PART III: WOMEN VICTIMS OF CRIME

Web Sites - Women Victims/Survivors

Introduction to PART III. By Andrew Karmen

18. Neil Websdale and Meda Chesney-Lind, Doing Violence to Women: Research Synthesis on the Victimization of Women

19. Kathryn Feltey, Gender Violence: Rape and Sexual Assault

20. Jennifer Wriggins, Rape, Racism, and the Law

21. Angela Browne, Fear and the Perception of Alternatives: Asking "Why Battered Women Don't Leave" Is the Wrong Question (updated)

22. Shamita Das Dasgupta, Women's Realities: Defining Violence Against Women by Immigration, Race, and Class

23. Carolyn West, Leaving a Second Closet: "Outing" Partner Violence in Same-Sex Couples

24. Carolyn Renae Griggs, Domestic Violence in Police Families*

25. Lois Presser and Emily Gaarder, Can Restorative Justice Reduce Battering?

26. Georganne Rundblad, Gender, Power, and Sexual Harassment

27. Marjan Wijers, Women, Labor, and Migration: The Position of Trafficked Women and Strategies for Support

28. Newsday, Dreams Ending in Nightmares: Many Immigrant Women, Girls Trapped in Sex Industry

PART IV: WOMEN WORKERS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

Web Sites - Women Workers

Introduction to PART IV

29. Lynn Hecht Schafran, Overwhelming Evidence: Gender and Race Bias against Women in the Courts*

30. Jeffrey Toobin, Women in Black: Are Female Judges More Compassionate?

31. Dorothy Moses Schulz, Invisible No More: A Social History of Women in U.S. Policing (updated)

32. Penny Harrington and Kim Lonsway, Current Barriers and Future Promise for Women in Policing*

33. Susan Miller, Kay Forest, and Nancy Jurik, Lesbians in Policing: Perceptions of and Work Experiences in the “Macho” Cop Culture*

34. Susan E. Martin, The Interactive Effects of Race and Sex on Women Police Officers (updated)

35. Joanne Belknap, Women in Conflict: An Analysis of Women Correctional Officers (updated)

36. Nanci Koser Wilson and Imogene L. Moyer, Affirmative Action, Multiculturalism, and Criminology (updated)

Addendum to 36. Nancy Jurik and Gray Cavender, Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Justice Studies Movement*

Authors' Biographies

* Indicates an article written explicitly for this edition

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