Women, Crime, and Justice

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Balancing the Scales

By Elaine Gunnison and Frances P. Bernat and Lynne Goodstein

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Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales offers a comprehensive exploration of women's roles within the criminal justice system, examining their experiences as offenders, victims, and professionals. It integrates global feminist perspectives to address topics such as criminal law, domestic violence, LGBTQ+ prisoners, cyberbullying, offender reintegration, and sex trafficking. The book also investigates challenges faced by women working in criminal justice fields, including police culture and judicial decision-making, enriched with international case studies and personal narratives to encourage critical thinking.
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This book is ideal for students and scholars in criminology, gender studies, and criminal justice, as well as practitioners seeking a thorough understanding of women's multifaceted roles in the field.

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.

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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 into their position as offenders, victims, and practitioners.

Draws on global feminist perspectives on female offending and victimisation 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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118793466

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 July 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 499g

Pages: 328

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Education & Reference Elaine Gunnison Frances P. Bernat Lynne Goodstein Non-Fiction

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.