With recent ‘tough on crime’ policies of the 1990s, the negative impact on women and children reverberates with social unawareness. Using a feminist perspective , Crime Control and Women explores the adverse effects of the U.S. crackdown on crime. Edited by Susan L. Miller, this book exposes the unintended consequences of today crime control policies: how cuts from social services to pay for crime control can disproportionately affect women; how women incur increased responsibility for family while men serve longer sentences; and how government often victimizes women as third parties when women are associated with criminals.
Using policy-oriented contributions, the book discusses empirically driven and theoretically driven implications of today crime control policies. Miller provides a substantive introductory overview and a concluding summary, creating a cohesive text that emphasizes a reduction in crime through commitments to prevention, education, and treatment.
A timely book, Crime Control and Women is vital for criminal justice academics and practitioners, mental health professionals, and policy makers. It future implications also make it an essential component for courses related to criminology, criminal justice, gender studies, sociology, public policy, and social work.
Table of Content
Introduction – Susan L Miller
Three Strikes and You′re Out! What Will Women Pay for the Pitch? – Mona Danner
Civil Forfeiture of Property – James Massey, Susan L Miller and Anna Wilhelmi
The Victimization of Women as Innocent Owners and Third Parties
A Critical Look at the Idea of Boot Camp as a Correctional Reform – Merry Morash and Lila Rucker
Warnings to Women – Elizabeth A Stanko
Police Advice and Women′s Safety in Britain
Gender, Class and Race in Three High Profile Crimes – Lynn Chancer
The Cases of New Bedford, Central Park and Bensonhurst
The Tangled Web of Feminism and Community Policing – Susan L Miller
Investigating the Impact of the `War on Drugs′ on the Incarceration of Black Females – Stephanie Bush-Baskette
Parenting through Prison Walls – Zoann K Snyder-Joy and Teresa A Carlo
Incarcerated Mothers and Children′s Visitation Programs
Masculinities, Violence and Communitarian Control – John Braithwaite and Kathleen Daly
Connecting the Dots – Claire M Renzetti
Women, Public Policy and Social Control
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