Women, Crime, and Justice: Core Concepts, provides a complete and concise view into the world of women, gender, and the interaction with the criminal justice system. Supported by contemporary research and discussions of issues around victimization, criminalization, and work within criminal justice, author Stacy L. Mallicoat explores a wide range of topics including rape and sexual assault, crimes and processing of women and LGBTQ+ individuals, and the impacts of gender in both the criminal justice and legal systems.
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1. Women, Gender, and Crime: Introduction
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2. Theories of Victimization
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3. Women, Gender, and Victimization: Rape and Sexual Assault
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4. Women, Gender, and Victimization: Intimate Partner Abuse and
Stalking
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5. Gender-Based Violence
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6. Women, Gender, and Offending
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7. Girls, Gender, and Juvenile Delinquency
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8. Female Offenders and Their Crimes
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9. Processing and Sentencing of Female Offenders
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10. The Supervision of Women: Community Corrections, Rehabilitation,
and Reentry
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11. Women, Gender, and Incarceration
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12. Women Professionals and the Criminal Justice System: Police,
Corrections, and Offender Services
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13. Women Professionals and the Criminal Justice System: Courts and
Victim Services
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author
Stacy L. Mallicoat is a professor of criminal justice and Director of the University Honors program at California State University, Fullerton. She earned her BA in legal studies and sociology from Pacific Lutheran University and her PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in sociology. She is the author of several Sage textbooks, including Crime and Criminal Justice: Concepts and Controversies, Women and Crime: Core Concepts, and Criminal Justice Policy. Her work also appears in a number of peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. She is an active member of the American Society of Criminology, the Western Society of Criminology, and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
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