Women, Gender, and Crime: Core Concepts provides students with a complete and concise view into the intersection of gender and the criminal justice system. Author Stacy L. Mallicoat explores core topics on women as victims, offenders, and criminal justice professionals as they interact with various areas of the criminal justice system. She investigates relevant subjects that are not found in many traditional texts, including women who work as victim advocates and international issues of crime and justice relating to gender.

Key Features:

• This text discusses women and victimization prior to covering women as offenders, because victimization is often a precursor to offending.
• Case Studies present compelling examples that connect concepts to real-life occurrences to reinforce learning and cover key issues, such as, sexual victimization in the military, stalking on college campuses, financial challenges for incarcerated women, pregnancy and policing, and self-care for victim advocates.
• Coverage of critical topics introduce students to important issues such as gender representation in criminal justice academia, multiple marginalities and LGBT populations, cyberstalking, labor trafficking, and challenges faced by women as criminal justice practitioners.
• Statistics, graphs, and tables demonstrate the most recent trends in the field to give students an accurate picture of the criminal justice system today.

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.

Reviews

"Student-friendly, Instructor-friendly, Progressive"

-- Dr. Dorinda L. Dowis

"It is an all inclusive text on women's issues geared toward undergraduate students. The chapters are an easy read, but they get the main points across."

-- Leah Grubb

"Very interesting topic with some good intriguing cases."

-- Dr. Susan L. Wortmann



Book Information
ISBN 9781506399270
Author Stacy L. Mallicoat
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
Weight(grams) 490g