Criminalizing women has become all too frequent in these neoliberal times. Meanwhile, poverty, racism and misogyny continue to frame criminalized women's lives. Criminalizing Women introduces the key issues addressed by feminists engaged in criminology research over the past four decades. The contributors explore how narratives that construct women as errant females, prostitutes, street gang associates and symbols of moral corruption mask the connections between women's restricted choices and the conditions of their lives. The book shows how women have been surveilled, disciplined, managed, corrected and punished, and it considers the feminist strategies that have been used to address the impact of imprisonment and to draw attention to the systemic abuses against poor and racialized women. In addition to updating material in the introductions and substantive chapters, this second edition includes new contributions that consider the media representations of missing and murdered women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, the gendered impact of video surveillance technologies (cctv), the role of therapeutic interventions in the death of Ashley Smith, the progressive potential of the Inside/Out Prison Exchange Program and the use of music and video as decolonizing strategies.

About the Author
Gillian Balfour is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Trent University. Elizabeth Comack is a professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba. They both teach courses in feminist criminology and the sociology of law.

Reviews
"An engaging and easily accessible edited anthology, Criminalizing Women maps out the connections between vulnerable, marginalized women and the 'structured choices' often imposed on them. This book has been the centerpiece of my 'Women and Crime'course for six years." - Kim Luton, Department of Sociology, Western University "Criminalizing Women presents an important and relevant opportunity for students to unveil and challenge the ideologies that promote women's conflicts with the law while they also learn about important ways that research, organizations and women in conflict with the law attempt to resist those ideologies." - Jenn Clamen, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University.



Book Information
ISBN 9781552666821
Author Gillian Balfour
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Publisher Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Weight(grams) 510g
Dimensions(mm) 23mm * 15mm * 1mm