Women, Crime, and Justice

Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of women in the criminal justice system, providing important new insight to their position as offenders, victims, and practitioners.

• Draws on global feminist perspectives on female offending and victimization from around the world

• Covers topics including criminal law, case processing, domestic violence, gay/lesbian and transgendered prisoners, cyberbullying, offender re-entry, and sex trafficking

• Explores issues professional women face in the criminal justice workplace, such as police culture, judicial decision-making, working in corrections facilities, and more

• Includes international case examples throughout, using numerous topical examples and personal narratives to stimulate students' critical thinking and active engagement

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Elaine Gunnison is an Associate Professor and Graduate Director in the Criminal Justice Department at Seattle University. She is the co-author of Offender Reentry: Beyond Crime and Punishment (2013), and she has published journal articles examining criminological theories as applied to female offenders, female victimization, and women in corrections.

Frances Bernat is Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas A&M International University and Emeritus Professor at Arizona State University. She is the co-author of Criminal Procedure Law: Police Issues and the Supreme Court (2013) and Human Sex Trafficking (2011).

Lynne Goodstein is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She is the co-author of The American Prison (1989) and Rethinking Gender, Crime and Justice: Feminist Readings (2006); and several book chapters and journal articles on higher education, sexual assault, women and crime, corrections, and criminal sentencing.

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Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales presents a comprehensive assessment and analysis of the role of women in the criminal justice system as offenders, victims, and practitioners.

Utilizing feminist perspectives, the authors shed important new light on a wide range of women and gender issues relating to criminal offending, victimization, and the criminal justice workplace. While seamlessly incorporating issues of race, class, and international perspectives throughout the text, coverage includes such topics as criminal law, case processing, domestic violence, transgendered prisoners, cyberbullying, offender reentry, sex traffickingand a variety of issues relating to professional women in the criminal justice workplace such as police culture, women as lawyers and jurists, judicial decision-making, women working in corrections facilities, and many more. Topical examples and personal narratives interspersed throughout the text greatly enhance comprehension and stimulate critical thinking about the various topics covered.

Contributing timely and important knowledge to an underserved field, Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales offers illuminating insights into the relationship of gender to crime and justice.

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Acknowledgments xiii

About the website xv

1 Foundations for understanding women and crime 1

Student learning outcomes 1

Introduction 1

Reasons for the focus on women and crime 2

Case study: Chibok kidnappings 3

Concepts of importance 3

Special legal issues: Legal considerations for the burqa and niqab 5

Gender in criminology and criminal justice 6

Global perspectives: An example of feminism in Saudi Arabia 11

Feminist criminology and feminist theory 12

Conclusion 13

Suggested readings 13

Student engagement activities 13

Discussion questions 14

Key terms 14

References 14

2 Women and the crimes that they commit 19

Student learning outcomes 19

Introduction 19

Case study: Rosemary West 22

Defining crime 22

Special legal issues: Differences in the defi nitions of crime 23

Measuring crime 24

Global perspectives: Female offenders across the globe 31

Explanations for crime 32

Why do women commit crime? 34

Conclusion 41

Suggested readings 41

Student engagement activities 41

Discussion questions 42

Key terms 42

References 42

3 Women convicted of crime and their punishments 51

Student learning outcomes 51

Introduction 51

Case study: Malala Yousafzai 52

Gender and sentencing 53

Women in institutional custody 54

Conditions specific to imprisoned women 61

Special legal issues: Medical care issues 63

Global perspectives: Incarcerated female offenders across the globe 65

Community corrections and reentry 68

Correctional programming for women 70

Conclusion 72

Suggested readings 72

Student engagement activities 72

Discussion questions 73

Key terms 73

References 74

4 Legal control over women's bodies: Pregnancy and crime 82

Student learning outcomes 82

Introduction 82

Case study: Aleksa Lundberg 84

Involuntary sterilization and eugenics 85

Global perspectives: The sterilization of women across the globe 90

The criminalization of abortion 90

Special legal issues: One-child family policy in China and abortions 100

Criminalization of pregnant women 101

Shackling of pregnant inmates giving birth 105

Conclusion 108

Suggested readings 108

Student engagement activities 109

Discussion questions 109

Key terms 109

References 110

5 Sexual victimization 115

Student learning outcomes 115

Introduction 115

Case study: Sexual assault in India 116

Defining and prosecuting rape then and now 118

Special legal issues: Legislative changes in India 119

The measurement of sexual victimization 120

Text box: National Violence Against Women definitions and survey questions 121

Prevalence of sexual victimization 122

Theories of rape 125

The social context of rape 128

Text box: Common rape myths from the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale 129

Types of sexual victimization 130

Global perspectives: Rape in wartime 136

The impact of rape on victims 136

Text box: Remember My Name: A poem written by a rape victim 137

Treatment of rape victims 139

Text box: Contents of a rape kit 140

Preventing sexual violence 144

Conclusion 144

Suggested readings 145

Student engagement activities 145

Discussion questions 146

Key terms 146

References 147

6 Domestic violence 153 Student learning outcomes 153</p&g...