The Invisible Woman
Gender, Crime, and Justice, 4th Edition
By Joanne Belknap, professor of sociology
Cengage Learning
The definitive text for the course, Belknap's “The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime and Justice” covers women and the criminal justice system with a focus on three major areas: 1) female offenders and their treatment by the criminal justice system; 2) female victims of crime; and 3) female employees of the agencies of the criminal justice system.
Thoroughly updated with new research and statistics, the fourth edition covers such timely and important topics as restorative justice, gender-responsive programming, sex trafficking, pathways research, Intimate Partner Abuse/Domestic Violence, and stalking.
Features:
—Built on the powerful theme of “invisible women” and featuring a strong feminist perspective, this text offers a comprehensive survey of the significant research on female offenders, victims, and criminal-justice employees.
—Written by a respected scholar and researcher, the book is more than a reader. In addition to pulling together and analyzing the multidisciplinary research in the field, the author discusses existing theories and provides students with a meaningful basis for understanding the subject matter.
—The text is sufficiently compact to be assigned with other texts, yet comprehensive enough to be used on its own.
—The book covers such topics as drug addiction/use, critical race feminism, older women, and legal and non-legal immigrants.
By Joanne Belknap, professor of sociology
Cengage Learning
The definitive text for the course, Belknap's “The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime and Justice” covers women and the criminal justice system with a focus on three major areas: 1) female offenders and their treatment by the criminal justice system; 2) female victims of crime; and 3) female employees of the agencies of the criminal justice system.
Thoroughly updated with new research and statistics, the fourth edition covers such timely and important topics as restorative justice, gender-responsive programming, sex trafficking, pathways research, Intimate Partner Abuse/Domestic Violence, and stalking.
Features:
—Built on the powerful theme of “invisible women” and featuring a strong feminist perspective, this text offers a comprehensive survey of the significant research on female offenders, victims, and criminal-justice employees.
—Written by a respected scholar and researcher, the book is more than a reader. In addition to pulling together and analyzing the multidisciplinary research in the field, the author discusses existing theories and provides students with a meaningful basis for understanding the subject matter.
—The text is sufficiently compact to be assigned with other texts, yet comprehensive enough to be used on its own.
—The book covers such topics as drug addiction/use, critical race feminism, older women, and legal and non-legal immigrants.