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Female victims of crime : reality reconsidered / [edited by] Venessa Garcia, Janice E. Clifford, Roslyn Muraskin.
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- Book
- Series:
- Prentice Hall's women in criminal justice series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- United States.
- Women--Crimes against--United States.
- Women.
- Women--Crimes against.
- Victims of crimes--United States.
- Victims of crimes.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [2010]
- Summary:
- Female Victims of Crime: Reality Reconsidered presents the myths and realities of women as victims of crime as well as the criminal justice system's treatment of female victims. Through an exploration of the history of, specific contexts of, and social and systemic responses to female victimization, the book presents a well-researched and comprehensive overview of this often overlooked topic.
- Contents:
- Doing gender: the gendered nature of victimization
- Cultural images
- media images: "doing culture" and victim blaming of female crime victims / Venessa Garcia, Erica J. Schweikert
- Becoming victims, becoming citizens: a brief history of gender-motivated violence in U.S. law / Melissa S. Fry
- Women and victimization: constructing outcomes / Dennis R. Brewster, Philip D. Holley
- The measurement, definition, and reporting of female victimization / Janice E. Clifford, John P. Jarvis
- Gendered crimes: the context of female victimization
- Leading lethal lives? Variations in the structure, context, and criminal justice response of female homicide victimization / Wendy C. Regoeczi, Terance D. Meithe
- The impact of gender, race, and class discrimination on femicide rates / Jo-Ann Della Giustina
- Rape myths: impacts on victims of rape / Heather Melton
- Domestic violence: overview of theoretical etiology, psychological impact, and interventions / Sharon Boyd-Jackson
- Workplace violence: identifying gender differences and similarities / Shannon Santana, Bonnie Fisher
- Cyberbullying and online harassment: reconceptualizing the victimization of adolescent girls / Amanda Burgess-Proctor, Justin Patchin, Sameer Hinduja
- Societal and criminal justice response to female victimization
- A sheltered life: observations on a domestic violence shelter / Angela Moe
- In their own words: shelter residents' experiences with police / Gina Robertiello
- "I don't think a cop has ever asked me if I was OK": battered women's experiences with police intervention / Hillary Potter
- The gendered paradox of victimization and agency in protection order filings / Alesha Durfee
- Misdemeanor domestic violence cases in the courts: a detailed description of the cases / Joanne Belknap, Jennifer L. Hartman, Victoria L. Lippen
- The victimization histories of women prisoners in Oklahoma / Susan F. Sharp
- The criminalization of victimization of female offenders and emerging correctional responses / Patrick McManimon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Female victims of crime.
- ISBN:
- 9780132339315
- 0132339315
- OCLC:
- 247963652
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