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Women, Crime, and Justice Balancing the Scales.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2016.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- About the website
- 1 Foundations for understanding women and crime
- Student learning outcomes
- Introduction
- Reasons for the focus on women and crime
- Case study: Chibok kidnappings
- Concepts of importance
- Special legal issues: Legal considerations for the burqa and niqab
- Gender in criminology and criminal justice
- Global perspectives: An example of feminism in Saudi Arabia
- Feminist criminology and feminist theory
- Conclusion
- Suggested readings
- Student engagement activities
- Discussion questions
- Key terms
- References
- 2 Women and the crimes that they commit
- Student learning outcomes
- Introduction
- Case study: Rosemary West
- Defining crime
- Special legal issues: Differences in the definitions of crime
- Measuring crime
- Global perspectives: Female offenders across the globe
- Explanations for crime
- Why do women commit crime?
- Conclusion
- Suggested readings
- Student engagement activities
- Discussion questions
- Key terms
- References
- 3 Women convicted of crime and their punishments
- Student learning outcomes
- Introduction
- Case study: Malala Yousafzai
- Gender and sentencing
- Women in institutional custody
- Conditions specific to imprisoned women
- Special legal issues: Medical care issues
- Global perspectives: Incarcerated female offenders across the globe
- Community corrections and reentry
- Correctional programming for women
- Conclusion
- Suggested readings
- Student engagement activities
- Discussion questions
- Key terms
- References
- 4 Legal control over women's bodies: Pregnancy and crime
- Student learning outcomes
- Introduction
- Case study: Aleksa Lundberg
- Involuntary sterilization and eugenics
- Global perspectives: The sterilization of women across the globe
- The criminalization of abortion
- Special legal issues: One-child family policy in China and abortions
- Criminalization of pregnant women
- Shackling of pregnant inmates giving birth
- Conclusion
- Suggested readings
- Student engagement activities
- Discussion questions
- Key terms
- References
- 5 Sexual victimization
- Student learning outcomes
- Introduction
- Case study: Sexual assault in India
- Defining and prosecuting rape
- then and now
- Special legal issues: Legislative changes in India
- The measurement of sexual victimization
- Text box: National Violence Against Women definitions and survey questions
- Prevalence of sexual victimization
- Theories of rape
- The social context of rape
- Text box: Common rape myths from the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale
- Types of sexual victimization
- Global perspectives: Rape in wartime
- The impact of rape on victims
- Text box: "Remember My Name": A poem written by a rape victim
- Treatment of rape victims
- Text box: Contents of a rape kit
- Preventing sexual violence