NCJ Number
154876
Editor(s)
R Muraskin,
T Alleman
Date Published
1993
Length
447 pages
Annotation
This book presents 23 essays on various issues pertinent to the role and involvement of women in crime and the criminal justice system.
Abstract
The first section, which consists of one essay, provides an overview of the variety of perspectives on women's issues that students of the subject must understand. Two essays on the historical development of women's issues address the history of litigation and its connection to patriarchal control, along with an examination of the witch hunts in Salem Village and its implications for societal attitudes toward women. Eight essays on women, drugs, and AIDS address women and AIDS in the criminal justice system, the criminalization of pregnancy, babies born with drug addiction, reactions to maternal drug dependency, and pregnant substance abusers. Two essays on women and policing provide a perspective on women in policing and discuss litigation by women in policing that alleges discrimination and harassment. Five essays discuss issues related to women and prisons. Topics include the disparate treatment of women in correctional facilities compared to male inmates, female guards in men's prisons, conditions in women's prisons, and the significance of telephone communication between inmates and their wives. Two essays focus on abortion and women's legal rights, followed by five essays that examine various issues related to women as victims of violence. The concluding essay discusses the role of the family in molding female juvenile delinquents. Chapter references