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.

New to This Edition

• Thirty-one of the essays in the book are new, and many of the chapters retained from the previous edition have been updated or completely re-written.
• New topics in this edition include prostitution, abortion, globalization, Native American women prisoners, lesbians in prison, mothers in prison, violence against women in prison, police domestic violence, trafficking in women, immigrant domestic violence, restorative justice, barriers against women police officers, lesbian police officers, and justice studies.
• New learning aids include abstracts at the beginning of each chapter, discussion questions at the end of each chapter, lists of suggested websites for further research in each of the four major sections, and new introductions to the sections.
• An all-new Part 2 explores issues related to women in prisons. Part 3 ("Women Victims of Crime") now emphasizes the experience of battered women from diverse perspectives. And in Part 4 ("Women Workers in the Criminal Justice System"), a number of articles relating to the diverse experiences and concerns of women in policing have been clustered together.

Features

• The book brings together outstanding feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines (including sociology, criminology, anthropology, history, etc.), who describe, explain, and challenge the criminal justice system, and its treatment of women, in the context of the larger society.
• The analysis presented is grounded in feminist scholarship and activism that addresses women's crime, imprisonment, victimization, survival, and work from a race/class/gender perspective.
• Eleven essays were written specifically for this collection (1, 5, 6, 12, 17, 24, 29, 32, 33, and 36).
• The articles discuss both local and international issues related to women and crime.
• Material relevant to lesbians and the criminal justice system appears throughout.

Preface

PART I: THEORIES AND FACTS ABOUT WOMEN OFFENDERS

Web Sites--Women Offenders
Introduction to PART I
1. Natalie J. Sokoloff, Barbara Raffel Price, and Jeanne Flavin, The Criminal Law and Women (updated)
2. Jeanne Flavin, Feminism for the Mainstream Criminologist: An Invitation
3. Jody Miller, Feminist Theory of Women's Crime: Robbery as a Case Study.
4. Emily Gaarder and Joanne Belknap, Tenuous Borders: Girls Transferred to Adult Courts
5. Darrell Steffensmeier and Jennifer Schwartz, Trends in Female Crime: Is Crime Still a Man's World
6. Darrell Steffensmeier and Jennifer Schwartz, Contemporary Explanations of Women's Crime
7. Lisa Maher, A Reserve Army: Women and the Drug Market
8. Kamala Kempadoo, Prostitution and The Globalization of Sex Workers' Rights
9. Lynn Paltrow, The War on Drugs and the War on Abortion

PART II: WOMEN AND PRISON

Web Sites--Women Prisoners
Introduction to PART II
10. Barbara Owen, Women and Imprisonment in the U.S.: The Gendered Consequences of the U.S. Imprisonment Binge
11. Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Angela Y. Davis, Women in Prison: Researching Race in Three National Contexts (Netherlands, Cuba, and U.S.)
12. Julia Sudbury, Women of Color, Globalization, and the Politics of Incarceration
13. Luana Ross, Resistance and Survivance: Cultural Genocide and Imprisoned Native Women
14. Kathryn Ann Farr, Defeminizing and Dehumanizing Female Murderers: Depictions of Lesbians on Death Row
15. Diane F. Reed and Edward L. Reed, Mothers in Prison and Their Children
16. Nina Siegal, Stopping Abuse of Women in Prison
17. Karlene Faith, Progressive Rhetoric, Regressive Policies: Canadian Prisons for Women

PART III: WOMEN VICTIMS OF CRIME

Web Sites--Women Victims/Survivors
Introduction to PART III. By Andrew Karmen
18. Neil Websdale and Meda Chesney-Lind, Doing Violence to Women: Research Synthesis on the Victimization of Women
19. Kathryn Feltey, Gender Violence: Rape and Sexual Assault
20. Jennifer Wriggins, Rape, Racism, and the Law
21. Angela Browne, Fear and the Perception of Alternatives: Asking Why Battered Women Don't Leave Is the Wrong Question (updated)
22. Shamita Das Dasgupta, Women's Realities: Defining Violence Against Women by Immigration, Race, and Class
23. Carolyn West, Leaving a Second Closet: Outing Partner Violence in Same-Sex Couples
24. Carolyn Renae Griggs, Domestic Violence in Police Families
25. Lois Presser and Emily Gaarder, Can Restorative Justice Reduce Battering
26. Georganne Rundblad, Gender, Power, and Sexual Harassment
27. Marjan Wijers, Women, Labor, and Migration: The Position of Trafficked Women and Strategies for Support
28. Newsday, Dreams Ending in Nightmares: Many Immigrant Women, Girls Trapped in Sex Industry

PART IV: WOMEN WORKERS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

Web Sites--Women Workers
Introduction to PART IV
29. Lynn Hecht Schafran, Overwhelming Evidence: Gender and Race Bias against Women in the Courts
30. Jeffrey Toobin, Women in Black: Are Female Judges More Compassionate
31. Dorothy Moses Schulz, Invisible No More: A Social History of Women in U.S. Policing (updated)
32. Penny Harrington and Kim Lonsway, Current Barriers and Future Promise for Women in Policing
33. Susan Miller, Kay Forest, and Nancy Jurik, Lesbians in Policing: Perceptions of and Work Experiences in the Macho Cop Culture
34. Susan E. Martin, The Interactive Effects of Race and Sex on Women Police Officers (updated)
35. Joanne Belknap, Women in Conflict: An Analysis of Women Correctional Officers (updated)
36. Nanci Koser Wilson and Imogene L. Moyer, Affirmative Action, Multiculturalism, and Criminology (updated)
Addendum. Nancy Jurik and Gray Cavender, Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Justice Studies Movement
Authors' Biographies