Research Catalog

Title

Crime control and women : feminist implications of criminal justice policy / edited by Susan L. Miller.

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1998.

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Additional Authors

Miller, Susan L.

Description

xxiv, 200 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Criminal Psychology [MESH]
• Criminal justice, Administration of > Social aspects > United States
• Female offenders > United States
• Feminism [MESH]
• Feminist theory > United States
• Prisoners' spouses > United States
• Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States
• Social control > United States
• Women > Crimes against > United States
• Women [MESH]

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Three strikes and it's women who are out : the hidden consequences for women of criminal justice policy reforms / Mona J.E. Danner -- Civil forfeiture of property : the victimization of women as innocent owners and third parties / James Massey, Susan L. Miller, Anna Wilhelmi -- A critical look at the idea of boot camp as a correctional reform / Merry Morash, Lila Rucker -- Warnings to women : police advice and women's safety in Britain / Elizabeth A. Stanko -- Gender, class, and race in three high-profile crimes : the cases of New Bedford, Central Park, and Bensonhurst / Lynn S. Chancer -- The tangled web of feminism and community policing / Susan L. Miller -- The war on drugs as a war against Black women / Stephanie R. Bush-Baskette -- Parenting through prison walls : incarcerated mothers and children's visitation programs / Zoann K. Snyder-Joy, Teresa A. Carlo -- Masculinities, violence, and communitarian control / John Braithwaite, Kathleen Daly -- Connecting the dots : women, public policy, and social control / Claire M. Renzetti.

ISBN

• 0761907130 (acid-free paper)
• 0761907149 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^97045284^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library