Harsh Punishment

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• While the number of incarcerated women is dramatically escalating, women prisoners throughout the world are largely an invisible and neglected populat... Lees meer

No Safe Haven

Lori B Girshick

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• Incarcerated women in the United States are largely an invisible population because of their small numbers, their involvement in less violent and seri... Lees meer

Gender and Community Policing

Susan L Miller

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• While traditional policing celebrated male officers as masculine crime fighters who were tough, aloof, and physically intimidating, policewomen were c... Lees meer

Freeing Tammy

Jody Raphael

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• The latest volume in the popular trilogy of books about women, poverty, and violence Lees meer

Battered Women in the Courtroom

James Ptacek

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• Recent laws have given women much-needed rights in seeking protection from abusive men, but judges still hold the authority to issue restraining order... Lees meer

Listening to Olivia

Jody Raphael

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• For nineteen years, Olivia lived the shadowy life of stripper, streetwalker, and heroin addict on the fringes of society. Leaving a troubled home at a... Lees meer

Domestic Violence

• Hardcover | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• This volume introduces and critiques the various methodologies employed in current research on domestic violence. By discussing different methodologie... Lees meer

A Typology of Domestic Violence

Michael P Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• Domestic violence, a serious and far-reaching social problem, has generated two key debates among researchers. The first debate is about gender and do... Lees meer

Victim Advocacy in the Courtroom

Mary Lay Schuster, Amy D Propen

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• This volume examines sentencing hearings in criminal court and the presentation of victim impact statements, as well as child protection cases in juve... Lees meer

Male Peer Support and Violence Against Women

Walter S Dekeseredy, Martin D Schwartz

• Hardcover | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• In 1988, Walter S. DeKeseredy announced Male Peer Support (MPS) Theory, which popularized the notion that certain all-male peer groups encourage, just... Lees meer

Victim Advocacy in the Courtroom

Mary Lay Schuster, Amy D Propen

• Hardcover | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• This volume examines sentencing hearings in criminal court and the presentation of victim impact statements, as well as child protection cases in juve... Lees meer

A Halfway House for Women

Gail A Caputo

• Hardcover | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• Although halfway houses have been touted for years as affirmative rehabilitation locations that ready women for life in the outside world, in this rem... Lees meer

Woman to Woman Sexual Violence

Lori B Girshick

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• A woman raping another woman is unthinkable. This is not how women behave, society tells us. Our legal system is not equipped to handle woman-to-woman... Lees meer

Hard Lives, Mean Streets

Jana L Jasinski, Jennifer K Wesely, James D Wright, Elizabeth E Mustaine

• Hardcover | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• Although homelessness is a serious social problem in the United States, there is little direct information about the actual experiences of violence, p... Lees meer

The Future of Batterer Programs

Edward W Gondolf

• Hardcover | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• Batterer programs are at a critical juncture, with a handful of experimental program evaluations showing little or no effect from the prevailing progr... Lees meer

Women on Probation and Parole

Merry Morash

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• So far there has been very limited research on the effectiveness of gender-responsive as compared to traditional supervision of women felons on probat... Lees meer

Battered Women, Their Children, and International Law

Taryn Lindhorst, Jeffrey L Edleson

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• Ending a bad personal relationship is extremely complicated when the relationship is transnational. Women whose partners are abusive often turn to fam... Lees meer

Women, Violence, and the Media

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• Through the lens of feminist criminology, this volume examines the complex interrelationship of women, violence, and media presentations. The book is ... Lees meer

A Halfway House for Women

Gail A Caputo

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• Although halfway houses have been touted for years as affirmative rehabilitation locations that ready women for life in the outside world, in this rem... Lees meer

Clergy Sexual Abuse

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• This book brings together experts primarily from the fields of criminology, criminal justice, law, and social work, but also cultural anthropology and... Lees meer

Battered Women, Their Children, and International Law

Taryn Lindhorst, Jeffrey L Edleson

• Hardcover | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• Ending a bad personal relationship is extremely complicated when the relationship is transnational. Women whose partners are abusive often turn to fam... Lees meer

Saving Bernice

Jody Raphael

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• Skillfully interweaving Bernice's own eloquent words about her harrowing abuse with descriptions of other women's similar experiences and a rich synth... Lees meer

Neither Angels Nor Demons

Kathleen Ferraro

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• She is a victim of intimate partner violence, a woman who has been harmed. She is a criminal offender, a woman who has harmed others. Superficially, i... Lees meer

Understanding Domestic Homicide

Neil Websdale

• Paperback | Engels | New England Gender, Crime & Law
• This groundbreaking examination of murder among intimate partners considers domestic homicides in all their guises -- not just those occurring between... Lees meer