Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales

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 trafficking and 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.

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.