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1 online resource (227 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Three Strikes and It's Women Who Are Out: The Hidden Consequences for Women of Criminal Justice Policy Reforms / Mona J.E. Danner -- 2. Civil Forfeiture of Property: The Victimization of Women as Innocent Owners and Third Parties / James Massey / Anna Wilhelmi / Susan L. Miller -- 3. Critical Look at the Idea of Boot Camp as a Correctional Reform / Lila Rucker / Merry Morash -- 4. Warnings to Women: Police Advice and Women's Safety in Britain / Elizabeth A. Stanko -- 5. Gender, Class, and Race in Three High-Profile Crimes: The Cases of New Bedford, Central Park, and Bensonhurst / Lynn S. Chancer -- 6. Tangled Web of Feminism and Community Policing / Susan L. Miller -- 7. War on Drugs as a War Against Black Women / Stephanie R. Bush-Baskette -- 8. Parenting Through Prison Walls: Incarcerated Mothers and Children's Visitation Programs / Teresa A. Carlo / Zoann K. Snyder-Joy -- 9. Masculinities, Violence, and Communitarian Control / John Braithwaite / Kathleen Daly -- 10. Connecting the Dots: Women, Public Policy, and Social Control / Claire M. Renzetti |
| Summary |
Crime Control and Women reveals the current limitations of criminal justice policies that are oblivious to the impact they exert on citizens who vary by gender, race and/or social class. Feminist in perspective, the contributors to this volume share a common vision of hope that social change will result from social control and punishment that is just and human, with commitments to prevention, education, and treatment |
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- United States
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Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
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Female offenders -- United States
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Prisoners' spouses -- United States
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Women -- Crimes against -- United States
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Social control -- United States
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Feminist theory -- United States
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Feminism -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Feminism
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects
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Female offenders
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Feminist theory
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Prisoners' spouses
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Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
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Social control
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Women -- Crimes against
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Kriminalpolitik
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Feminismus
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Criminaliteit.
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Strafrechtspleging.
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Justitieel beleid.
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Vrouwen.
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Susan L.
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| ISBN |
9781452250489 |
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1452250480 |
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