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

Sokoloff, Natalie, Price, Barbara Raffel

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.

EAN

9780072463996

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Professional

Published

16 August 2003

Pages

624