Criminalizing women

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"Criminalizing women has become all too frequent in these neo-liberal times. Meanwhile, poverty, racism, and misogyny continue to frame criminalized women's lives. Criminalizing Women introduces readers to the key issues addressed by feminists engaged in criminology research over the past four decades. Chapters explore how narratives that construct women as errant females, prostitutes, street gang associates and symbols of moral corruption mask the connections between women's restricted choices and the conditions of their lives. The book shows how women have been surveilled, disciplined, managed, corrected, and punished, and it considers the feminist strategies that have been used to address the impact of imprisonment and to draw attention to the systemic abuses against poor and racialized women."--Publisher's website.

subjects: Administration of Criminal justice,  Women prisoners,  Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration,  Female offenders,  Women's rights,  Criminelles,  Prisonnières,  Discrimination sexuelle dans l'administration de la justice pénale,  Justice pénale,  Administration,  Femmes,  Droits,  Feminist criminology,  Weibliche Gefangene,  Diskriminierung,  Feminismus,  Frau,  Kriminalität,  Kriminologie,  Criminal justice, administration of,  Prisoners, canada,  Prisonnieres,  Discrimination sexuelle dans l'administration de la justice penale,  Justice penale,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology

Places: Canada