Criminalizing women : gender and (in)justice in neo-liberal times
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- ISBN: 1552661873 (pbk.)
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382 p. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Halifax : Fernwood Pub., c2006.
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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 -- |
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Lansdowne Library | HV 6046 B345 2006 (Text) | 26040002790646 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |