Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Criminalizing Women

Gender and (In)Justice in Neoliberal Times

Av Gillian Balfour, Elizabeth Comack

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Beskrivning

Criminalizing women has become all too frequent in these neo-liberal times. Meanwhile, poverty, racism, and misogyny continue to frame criminalized women’s lives. Criminalizing Women introduces readers to the key issues addressed by feminists engaged in criminology research over the past four decades. Chapters explore how narratives that construct women as errant females, prostitutes, street gang associates and symbols of moral corruption mask the connections between women’s restricted choices and the conditions of their lives. The book shows how women have been surveilled, disciplined, managed, corrected, and punished, and it considers the feminist strategies that have been used to address the impact of imprisonment and to draw attention to the systemic abuses against poor and racialized women.In addition to updating material in the introductions and substantive chapters, this second edition includes new contributions that consider the media representations of missing and murdered women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the gendered impact of video surveillance technologies (CCTV), the role of therapeutic interventions in the death of Ashley Smith, the progressive potential of the Inside/Out Prison Exchange Program, and the use of music and video as decolonizing strategies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2014-09-15
Mått: 15 x 23 x 1 mm
Vikt: 510 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 392
Upplaga: 2
Förlag: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
ISBN: 9781552666821

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Gillian Balfour is Associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Trent University.Gillian recently completed a PhD in sociology at the University of Manitoba where she examined the role of lawyers in the criminalization of men and women accused of violent crimes. Her PhD research examined the practice of law as a social act that is constrained and enabled by socio-political interests of “law and order,” professional codes of conduct, and the identities of victims and offenders and the meaning of violence that are encoded with stereotypes of whiteness, Indianness, dangerousness, poverty, heterosexuality, femininity and masculinity.Her research interests include law reforms in the areas of domestic and sexual violence, women, crime and social justice, feminist criminology and Aboriginal peoples in the criminal justice system. Gillian teaches Sociology of Law, Feminist Criminology and Introductory Sociology.Elizabeth Comack is a distinguished professor emerita in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Manitoba. Comack’s work in the sociology of law and feminist criminology has been instrumental in setting the course for Canadian scholarship. She is a member of the Manitoba Research Alliance, a consortium of academics and community partners engaged in research addressing poverty in Indigenous and inner-city communities. Comack is the author or editor of 13 books, including Coming Back to Jail: Women, Trauma, and Criminalization; “Indians Wear Red”: Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs (co-authored with Laurie Deane, Larry Morrissette, and Jim Silver); and Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Encounters with Police.

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"An engaging and easily accessible edited anthology, Criminalizing Women maps out the connections between vulnerable, marginalized women and the 'structured choices' often imposed on them. This book has been the centerpiece of my 'Women and Crime'course for six years." - Kim Luton, Department of Sociology, Western University "Criminalizing Women presents an important and relevant opportunity for students to unveil and challenge the ideologies that promote women's conflicts with the law while they also learn about important ways that research, organizations and women in conflict with the law attempt to resist those ideologies." - Jenn Clamen, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University.

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