1 option
Black women's experiences of criminal justice : race, gender and class : a discourse on disadvantage / Ruth Chigwada-Bailey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chigwada-Bailey, Ruth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration--Great Britain.
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Female offenders--Great Britain.
- Female offenders.
- Women, Black--Great Britain.
- Women, Black.
- Women prisoners--Great Britain.
- Women prisoners.
- Physical Description:
- 160p. : 23cm
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Winchester : Waterside Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text looks at the multiple hazards of discrimination - on the basis of race, gender and class - faced by black women who come into contact with the criminal justice process. It contains extracts from interviews with black women prisoners and background information about discrimination.
- Contents:
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- Extracts from the Foreword to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction to the Second Edition
- 1 A Combination of Forces
- 2 Voices Unheard
- 3 Police and Black Women
- 4 Community Sentences
- 5 Experience of Courts and Lawyers
- 6 Beatrice's Case
- 7 Black Women in Prison
- 8 Hopes and Ambitions
- APPENDIX
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-154) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611124342
- 9781281124340
- 1281124346
- 9781906534028
- 1906534020
- OCLC:
- 923508990
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.