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 …
Law’s power to criminalize–to turn a person into a criminal–is formidable. Traditional legal doctrine argues that law dispenses justice in an impartial and unbiased fashion. …
OBJECTIVES Who Are Criminalized and Imprisoned Women What’s Law Got to Do With IT? Retributive Justice and the Women of Legal Discourse Feminist-Inspired Law Reforms The Practice of Law as …