Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-372) and index.

The feminist engagement with criminology / Elizabeth Comack -- Sluts and slags : the censuring of the erring female / Joanne Minaker -- The incall sex industry : gender, class, and racialized labour in the margins / Chris Bruckert & Colette Parent -- Surviving colonization : Anishinaabe Ikwe street gang participation / Nahanni Fontaine -- Dazed, dangerous and dissolute : media representations of street-level sex workers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside / David Hugill -- The making of the Black widow : the criminal and psychiatric control of women / Robert Menzies & Dorothy E. Chunn -- From welfare fraud to welfare as fraud : the criminalization of poverty / Dorothy E. Chunn & Shelley A.M. Gavigan -- The paradox of visibility : women, CCTV, and crime / Amanda Glasbeek & Emily van der Meulen -- Examining the "psy-carceral complex" in the death of Ashley Smith / Jennifer Kilty -- Making change in neo-liberal times / Laureen Snider -- Rattling assumptions and building bridges : community engaged education and action in a women's prison / Shoshana Pollack -- Experiencing the inside-out program in a maximum security prison / Monica Freitas, Bonnie McAuley & Nyki Kish -- Enhancing the wellbeing of criminalized indigenous women : a contemporary take on a traditional cultural knowledge form / Colleen Anne Dell, Jenny Gardipy, Nicki Kirlin, Violet Naytowhow & Jennifer J. Nicol.