Criminalizing women : gender and (in)justice in neo-liberal times

Balfour, Gillian, 1965- (Added Author). Comack, Elizabeth, 1952- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1552661873 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
382 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Halifax : Fernwood Pub., c2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Gillian Balfour and Elizabeth Comack -- pt. 1. Women, criminology, and feminism -- 1. The feminist engagement with criminology / Elizabeth Comack -- pt. 2. Making connections : class/race/gender intersections -- 2. Introduction / Elizabeth Comack -- 3. Sluts and slags : the censuring of the erring female / Joanne C. Minaker -- 3. The in-call sex industry : classed and gendered labour on the margins / Chris Bruckert and Colette Parent -- 4. Surviving colonization : Anishinaabe Ikwe gang participation / Nahanni Fontaine -- 5. Representations of women in the drug trade / Susan C. Boyd -- pt. 3. Regulating women and girls -- Introduction / Gillian Balfour -- 6. The making of the black widow : the criminal and psychiatric control of women / Robert Menzies and Dorothy E. Chunn -- 7. From villian to victim : secure care and young women in prostitution / Steven Bittle -- 8. From welfare fraud to welfare as fraud : the criminalization of poverty / Dorothy E. Chunn and Shelley A.M. Gavigan -- 9. Therapeutic programming as a regulatory practice in women's prisons / Shoshana Pollack -- 10. Empoweriong risk : the nature of gender-responsive strategies / Kelly Hannah-Moffat -- 11. Passing the buck : transcarceral regulation of criminalized women / MaDonna R. maidment -- 12. Lifer's thoughts / Yvonne Johnson --