Criminalizing Women 2nd Revised edition [Minkštas viršelis]

This volume contains 13 essays contributed by sociologists, criminologists, and other specialists from Canada, as well as women who have been incarcerated, who examine issues involved in the lives of criminalized women in Canada. They discuss how criminalized women have been represented and understood through feminist criminology; the nature and extent of women's involvement in crime, the issue of poverty, and the overrepresentation of Aboriginal women and women of color in the criminal justice system, with discussion of the “erring female” of the 19th century, women who work in the sex trade, and Aboriginal women's and girls' participation in street gangs; the techniques of regulation used from the early 20th century to the present, including psychiatric, welfare, public surveillance, and penal regimes; and the possibilities for change. Updated, this edition has new essays on media representations of missing and murdered women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, the gendered impact of video surveillance technologies, the death of Ashley Smith, the progressive potential of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, and the use of music and video as decolonizing strategies. Distributed by Brunswick Books of Toronto, Canada. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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.
In addition to updating material in the introductions and substantive chapters, this second edition includes new contributions that consider the media representations of missing and murdered women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the gendered impact of video surveillance technologies (CCTV), the role of therapeutic interventions in the death of Ashley Smith, the progressive potential of the Inside/Out Prison Exchange Program, and the use of music and video as decolonizing strategies.

Criminalizing women has become all too frequent in these neoliberal times. Meanwhile, poverty, racism and misogyny continue to frame criminalized women's lives. Criminalizing Women introduces the key issues addressed by feminists engaged in criminology research over the past four decades. The contributors explore how narratives that construct