Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales - Softcover

Gunnison, Elaine; Bernat, Frances P.; Goodstein, Lynne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118793463 ISBN 13: 9781118793466

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016

Synopsis

Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of women in the criminal justice system, providing important new insight to their position as offenders, victims, and practitioners.

• Draws on global feminist perspectives on female offending and victimization from around the world
• Covers topics including criminal law, case processing, domestic violence, gay/lesbian and transgendered prisoners, cyberbullying, offender re-entry, and sex trafficking
• Explores issues professional women face in the criminal justice workplace, such as police culture, judicial decision-making, working in corrections facilities, and more
• Includes international case examples throughout, using numerous topical examples and personal narratives to stimulate students’ critical thinking and active engagement

About this title

From the Back Cover

Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales presents a comprehensive assessment and analysis of the role of women in the criminal justice system as offenders, victims, and practitioners.

Utilizing feminist perspectives, the authors shed important new light on a wide range of women and gender issues relating to criminal offending, victimization, and the criminal justice workplace. While seamlessly incorporating issues of race, class, and international perspectives throughout the text, coverage includes such topics as criminal law, case processing, domestic violence, transgendered prisoners, cyberbullying, offender reentry, sex trafficking―and a variety of issues relating to professional women in the criminal justice workplace such as police culture, women as lawyers and jurists, judicial decision-making, women working in corrections facilities, and many more. Topical examples and personal narratives interspersed throughout the text greatly enhance comprehension and stimulate critical thinking about the various topics covered.

Contributing timely and important knowledge to an underserved field, Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales offers illuminating insights into the relationship of gender to crime and justice.

About the Author

Elaine Gunnison is an Associate Professor and Graduate Director in the Criminal Justice Department at Seattle University. She is the co-author of Offender Reentry: Beyond Crime and Punishment (2013), and she has published journal articles examining criminological theories as applied to female offenders, female victimization, and women in corrections.

Frances Bernat is Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas A&M International University and Emeritus Professor at Arizona State University. She is the co-author of Criminal Procedure Law: Police Issues and the Supreme Court (2013) and Human Sex Trafficking (2011).

Lynne Goodstein is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She is the co-author of The American Prison (1989) and Rethinking Gender, Crime and Justice: Feminist Readings (2006); and several book chapters and journal articles on higher education, sexual assault, women and crime, corrections, and criminal sentencing. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1118793463
• ISBN 13: 9781118793466
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328