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Title: Women and the Criminal Justice System by Katherine S. Van Wormer, Clemens Bartollas ISBN: 020529457X Publisher: Allyn & Bacon Pub. Date: 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $38.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book on Women in Criminal Justice
Comment: Van Wormer and Bartollas' book provides a very broad discussion of all facets of women in the criminal justice system, such as rape, spouse abuse, women in prison, women in law enforcement, and women in the legal profession. Because of its broad range of information, it provides a strong book for courses in criminal justice programs involving women. It also provides a strong reader for lay persons who are just interested in knowing the issues involving women and the criminal justice system. In the College of Social Work at Ohio State University, I teach a course entitled social work practice in corrections and would adopt this book as a second book for my course to provide students with broad perspective of women issues in criminal justice.
Rating: 5
Summary: a valuable and rare resource
Comment: Although laid out like a textbook(numerous summary statements and bullet points) and encompassing an enormous amount of literature, the writing is crisp and interesting, liberally sprinkled with quotes, original interviews, vignettes and illustrative sidebars. The chapters fall into the basic categories of women as imprisoned perpetrators, women as victims of crimes, and the place of women in the law enforcement system. The book is a joint effort from a social work professor and a sociology/criminal justice professor. THis resulted in a fruitful interplay between the objective and subjective voice in the presentation of this material. The subject is explicitly approached from an empowerment perspective, which focuses on giving people the information they need to navigate the issues most effectively for helping themselves and others.The assumption is that issues of gender,social class and racial oppression enter into all aspects of the subject.This is a valuable and rare resource in this area of human concern. Reviewed in Social Work Forum Newsletter
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Title: In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prisonn (Suny Series in Women, Crime and Criminology) by Barbara Owen ISBN: 079143608X Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice by Joanne Belknap ISBN: 0534542093 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 02 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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Title: It's a Crime: Women and Justice by Roslyn Muraskin ISBN: 0130482005 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb by Kathryn Watterson, Meda Chesney-Lind ISBN: 1555532381 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Female Offender: Girls, Women, and Crime by Meda Chesney-Lind ISBN: 0803951000 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 1997 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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