The invisible woman : gender, crime, and justice / 6
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Joanne Belknap.
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- xiv, 290 p. : ill. 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Emergence of gender in criminology -- Critiquing criminological theories -- The frequency and nature of female offending -- Processing female offenders -- Punishing and treating female offenders -- The image of the female victim -- Sexual victimization -- Battered women -- Resistance to change -- On the job -- Effecting change.
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Publisher description: The definitive text for the course, Belknap covers women and the criminal justice system with a focus on three major areas: (1) female offenders and their treatment by the criminal justice system; (2) female victims of crime; and (3) female employees of the agencies of the criminal justice system.