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Criminalizing Women

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This book introduces readers to the key issues addressed by feminists in their engagement with criminology over the past four decades. It explores the narratives of women’s lives as “errant females...
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This book introduces readers to the key issues addressed by feminists in their engagement with criminology over the past four decades. It explores the narratives of women’s lives as “errant females,” sex trade workers, “gang” members and drug traffickers to map out the connections between the choices women make and the conditions of their lives. It shows how criminalized women and girls have been disciplined, managed, corrected and punished as prisoners, patients, mothers and victims through imprisonment, medicalization and secure care. And it considers the feminist strategies that have been used to address the conditions inside women’s prisons, to defend criminalized women’s human rights and to draw attention to the systemic abuses against poor and racialized women.
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Price: $37.00
Pages: 382
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Publication Date: 01 August 2006
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781552661871
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
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Gillian Balfour is an assistant professor of sociology at Trent University and the coauthor of The Power to Criminalize. Elizabeth Comack is a professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba, the author of Locating Law and Women in Trouble, and the coauthor of The Power to Criminalize.

: Introduction
: I. WOMEN, CRIMINOLOGY, AND FEMINISM
: The Feminist Engagement with Criminology (Elizabeth Comack)
: II. MAKING CONNECTIONS: Class/Race/Gender Intersections
: Introduction (Elizabeth Comack)
: Sluts and Slags: The Censuring of the “Erring Female” (Joanne C. Minaker)
: The In-Call Sex Industry: Reflections of Classed and Gendered Labour on the Margins (Chris Bruckert and Colette Parent)
: Surviving Colonization: Anishinaabe Ikwe and Gang Participation (Nahanni Fontaine)
: Representations of Women in the Drug Trade (Susan C. Boyd)
: III. REGULATING WOMEN AND GIRLS
: Introduction (Gillian Balfour)
: Charlotte’s Story Revisited: The Criminal and Psychiatric Control of Women (Robert Menzies and Dorothy E. Chunn)
: From Villain to Victim: Secure Care and Young Women Involved in Prostitution (Steven Bittle)
: From Welfare Fraud to Welfare as Fraud: The Criminalization of Poverty (Dorothy E. Chunn and Shelley A.M. Gavigan)
: Therapeutic Programming as a Regulatory Practice in Women’s Prisons (Shoshana Pollack)
: Empowering Risk: The Nature of Gender-Responsive Strategies (Kelly Hannah-Moffat)
: Passing the Buck: Transcarceral Regulating of Criminalized Women (MaDonna R. Maidment)
: IV. MAKING CHANGE
: Introduction (Gillian Balfour)
: Are Women’s Rights Worth the Paper They’re Written On? Collaborating to Enforce the Human Rights of Criminalized Women (Gayle Horii, Debra Parkes, and Kim Pate)
: Making Change in Neoliberal Times (Laureen Snider)