Women, law, and social control - Merlo, Alida V.; Pollock, Joycelyn M. 1956-. (Boston Allyn and Bacon, 1995)
Table of Contents: Preface. About the Contributors. -- Part I. Introduction: Chapter 1. Gender, Justice, and Social Control: A Historical Perspective / J. M. Pollock -- Part II. Women Practitioners: Chapter 2. Realities of Women in Policing: An Organizational Cultural Perspective / D. C. Hale and C. Lee Bennett -- Chapter 3. Sexual Harassment Among Police Officers: Crisis and Change in the Normative Structure / L. Gratch -- Chapter 4. Women in the Legal Profession / J. M. Pollock and B. Ramirez -- Chapter 5. Women in Corrections: Custody and the "Caring Ethic" / J. M. Pollock -- Part III. Women Offenders: Chapter 6. Female Criminality in the 1990s / A. V. Merlo -- Chapter 7. Controlling Women's Bodies / K. Bagley and A. V. Merlo -- Chapter 8. Women's Prisons: Equality with a Vengeance / M. Chesney-Lind and Joycelyn M. Pollock -- Part IV. Women Victims: Chapter 9. Assaultive Sex: The Victim's Perspective / M. Southerland -- Chapter 10. The Battered Woman Syndrome as Legal Defense: Status in the Courtroom / D. C. Hale and D. J. Menniti -- Chapter 11. Women as Victims and Perpetrators of Murder / P. J. Benekos -- Part V. Conclusion: Chapter 12. Charting a Course for the Future / A. V. Merlo. -- Name Index. Subject Index.
Cover title: Women, law & social control.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States; Women criminal justice personnel -- United States; Women -- Crimes against -- United States; Women prisoners -- United States