This is the first reference work to offer the wealth of material on women and crime to a general audience. More than 200 authoritative contributors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia examine the subject from the perspectives of offenders, offenses, and theories on offending, victims and victimology, the criminal justice system, punishment and treatment.
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NICOLE HAHN RAFTER, a professor in the Law, Policy, and Society Program at Northeastern University, has written and cowritten several books on women and crime, including International Feminist Perspectives in Criminology: Engendering a Discipline and Partial Justice: Women, Prisons, and Social Control. /e
Rafter reports that the encyclopedia was developed around four themes: crime; victims and victimology; policing, courts, and case processing; and punishment and treatment. The work also does an admirable job of offering what could have been identified as a fifth theme: careers in criminal justice, police work , law, and corrections. Within this general subject can be found such entry headings as Lawyers and gender difference, Women professionals in the justice workplace, and discussions of police subcultures that contain, for example, lesbians and women of color.
The entries cover enormous territory, treating such topics as Aggression; Borden, Lizzie; Child-savers movement; Death row; Elderly victims; O'Connor, Sandra Day; Shoplifting; Terrorism; and Victims, historical treatment of. In one example, Crime fiction writers, a minihistory of the genre examines a few of its superstars, such as the "mother of the detective novel" Anna Katherine Green (1846-1935), who inspired Agatha Christie as well as Sara Paretsky. Evidence of the frustration, the absurdity, and the cruelty inherent in any polar classification of women can be found in the entry titled Madonna/whore dichotomy. In Rape rates, USA, information provided by the only ongoing national survey, the U.S. Census Bureau's National Crime Victimization Survey, is reported. Also discussed is the chilling National Women's Study, wherein the authors estimated that more than 12 million American women have been raped; that's a rate of some 683,000 forcible rapes per year.
This well-organized reference tool is recommended for public libraries of any size, as well as high-school and undergraduate libraries, where it should prove valuable to the researcher, student, casual reader, and librarian. It should also be considered for locations with limited space but a demonstrated need for this type of information, such as bookmobiles or other off-site collections. RBB
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Book Description Condition: New. Über den AutorNicole RafterInhaltsverzeichnisContributorsAlphabetical List of EntriesTopic FindersList of Figures and TablesPrefaceEncyclopedia of Women and CrimeWorks CitedInd. Seller Inventory # 448119784