Women, Crime, and Victimization
Hardback
Publication Date: 30/11/2006
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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Violence in society
Gender & the law
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Gender studies: women
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