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

Price, Barbara Raffel; Sokoloff, Natalie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072463996 ISBN 13: 9780072463996

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Raffel Price received her B.A. from Smith College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from The Pennsylvania State University. She is Professor Emerita of Criminal Justice and formerly Dean of Graduate Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York. A Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, she has served as its Vice-President and is a recipient of its Herbert A. Bloch Award. . She served as Vice-chair of the Alliance of Nongovernmental Organizations on Crime Prevention at the United Nations and is on the Board of Directors of the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. and is a board member of The Graduate School Advisory Society at PSU; Her books include Police Professionalism Rhetoric and Action; Jails and Drug Treatment(co-authored); Criminal Justice Research New Models and Findings(co-edited); The Criminal Justice System and Women Offenders, Victims, and Workers, editions 1 and 2(co-edited).

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0072463996
• ISBN 13: 9780072463996
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 624