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Neither Angels nor Demons

Neither Angels nor Demons

Women, Crime, and Victimization

by Kathleen Ferraro
Hardback
Publication Date: 30/11/2006

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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, it seems she is two separate women. Victim and offender are binary categories used within law, social science, and public discourse to describe social experiences with a moral dimension. Such terms draw upon cultural narratives of good and bad people and have influenced scholarship, public policy, and activism. The duality of good and bad women, separated into mutually exclusive extremes of angels and demons, has helped segregate thinking about, and responses to, each group. In this groundbreaking study, Kathleen J. Ferraro exposes the limits of such thinking by exploring the link between victimization and offending from the perspective of the women charged with the crimes.
ISBN:
9781555536626
9781555536626
Category:
Crime & criminology
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
30-11-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
University Press of New England
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4mm
Weight:
0.64kg

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