Criminalizing Women

by Gillian Balfour (Editor), Elizabeth Comack (Editor)

This reference focuses on the key issues addressed by feminists in their engagement with criminology over the past four decades. Exploring women's lives as "errant females," this volume maps out the connections between the choices women make and their environment as linked to the wider socio-political context and considers feminist strategies used to address the conditions inside women's prisons, defend criminalized women's human rights, and draw attention to the systemic abuses against poor and racialized women.

Genres: Nonfiction

382 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2006

Reviews

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

it was a textbook
some fun chapters

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.76/5

[Sarah York-Bertram · Rating 3 out of 5]

Comack initially outlines the history of women's criminality (or the construction of their criminality) quite well but the rest of the book is very second wave and has radical feminist leanings. Not a stitch of queer theory in this book. The gist is women = victims.

[Cara G · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good chapters, some not so good.