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The crimes women commit, the punishments they receive / by Simon, Rita J.(Rita James),1931-2013.(CARDINAL)148158; Landis, Jean.(CARDINAL)202655;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-130) and index.
Subjects: Female offenders; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration; Women prisoners;
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Offending women : female lawbreakers and the criminal justice system / by Worrall, Anne.(CARDINAL)185581;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Theorizing Women's Experiences -- 2. Rules and Authority -- 3. Not Mad Enough, Not Bad Enough: Fifteen Female Lawbreakers -- 4. Invisible Women? -- 5. Guilty Women? -- 6. Treatable Women? -- 7. Manageable Women? -- 8. Listening to Women -- A Footnote? -- 9. Women Offenders Or Offending Women? -- Appendix: researching women -- Notes.Female offenders experience very different treatment from male offenders at the hands of the courts and welfare agencies. In Offending Women, former probation officer Anne Worrall draws on detailed empirical research to examine why this is, how the situation is perpetuated, and what the implications are for women. The author looks at the wholly inadequate categorizations applied to women who offend and the inappropriate solutions offered to their ill-defined problems. In acknowledging the State's powerlessness to categorize them, Worrall builds up a fascinating concept of the 'nondescriptiveness' of certain women offenders. By defying description they are largely neglected by (and elude the control of) professional expertise. The author then examines the relevance of the concept to a broader sociology of women's experiences. Offending Women provides an interesting and useful theoretical analysis of the discourse surrounding women's deviancy. Based on interviews with probation officers, magistrates, solicitors, psychiatrists, and female lawbreakers themselves, the book will be essential reading for practitioners in the field as well as academics in criminology and women's studies.1410L
Subjects: Female offenders; Deviant behavior; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration;
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The criminal justice system and women : women offenders, victims, workers / by Price, Barbara R.(CARDINAL)154399; Sokoloff, Natalie J.(CARDINAL)153154;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration; Female offenders; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
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Women in the criminal justice system / by Feinman, Clarice.(CARDINAL)150517;
Includes bibliographies and index.1450L
Subjects: Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration; Female offenders; Women correctional personnel; Women lawyers;
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The pig farmer's daughter and other tales of American justice : episodes of racism and sexism in the courts from 1865 to the present / by Berry, Mary Frances.(CARDINAL)122553;
Subjects: African Americans; Sex crimes; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Sexual violence.;
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Tainted witness : why we doubt what women say about their lives / by Gilmore, Leigh,1959-author.(CARDINAL)378323;
Includes bibliographical references and index.in 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed by conservatives and Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. The tainting of Hill and her testimony is part of a larger social history in which women find themselves caught up in a system that refuses to believe what they say. Hill's experience shows how a tainted witness is not who someone is, but what someone can become. Tainted Witness examines how gender, race, and doubt stick to women witnesses as their testimony circulates in search of an adequate witness. Judgment falls unequally upon women who bear witness, as well-known conflicts about testimonial authority in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries reveal. Women's testimonial accounts demonstrate both the symbolic potency of women's bodies and speech in the public sphere and the relative lack of institutional security and control to which they can lay claim. Each testimonial act follows in the wake of a long and invidious association of race and gender with lying that can be found to this day within legal courts and everyday practices of judgment, defining these locations as willfully unknowing and hostile to complex accounts of harm. Bringing together feminist, literary, and legal frameworks, Leigh Gilmore provides provocative readings of what happens when women's testimony is discredited. She demonstrates how testimony crosses jurisdictions, publics, and the unsteady line between truth and fiction in search of justice. -- Inside jacket flap.Introduction: tainted witness in testimonial networks -- Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the search for an adequate witness -- Jurisdictions and testimonial networks: Rigoberta Menchu -- Neoliberal life narrative: from testimony to self-help -- Witness by proxy: girls in humanitarian storytelling -- Tainted witness in law and literature: Nafissatou Diallo and Jamaica Kincaid -- Conclusion: testimonial publics-#BlackLivesMatter and Claudia Rankine's Citizen.
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women; Sex discrimination; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.; Witnesses; Crime; Women; False testimony.; Feminist theory.; Women.; Womyn.; Feminist theory.;
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The eyes of Willie McGee : a tragedy of race, sex, and secrets in the Jim Crow South / by Heard, Alex.(CARDINAL)651320;
MARCIVE 07/06/10Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-365) and index."A saga of race and retribution in the deep South that says as much about Mississippi today as it does about the mysteries of the past"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Trial and arbitral proceedings.; McGee, Willie, 1915-1951; Capital punishment; Capital punishment; Discrimination in capital punishment; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Executions and executioners; Race discrimination;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Beneath a ruthless sun : a true story of violence, race, and justice lost and found / by King, Gilbert,author.(CARDINAL)353446;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-404) and index.From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller "Devil in the Grove" comes a gripping story of sex, race, class, corruption, and the arc of justice. In December 1957, Blanche Bosanquet Knowles, the wealthy young wife of a citrus baron, is raped in her home while her husband is away. Journalist Mabel Norris Reese and an inexperienced young lawyer pursue the case, winning unlikely allies and chasing down leads until at long last they begin to unravel the unspeakable truths behind a racial conspiracy that shocked a community into silence.
Subjects: Daniels, Jesse Delbert, 1938-2018.; Discrimination in criminal justice administration;
Available copies: 29 / Total copies: 31
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Beneath a ruthless sun [sound recording] : a true story of violence, race, and justice lost and found / by King, Gilbert,author.(CARDINAL)353446; Farr, Kimberly,narrator.(CARDINAL)356700;
Read by Kimberly Farr.From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller "Devil in the Grove" comes a gripping story of sex, race, class, corruption, and the arc of justice. In December 1957, Blanche Bosanquet Knowles, the wealthy young wife of a citrus baron, is raped in her home while her husband is away. Journalist Mabel Norris Reese and an inexperienced young lawyer pursue the case, winning unlikely allies and chasing down leads until at long last they begin to unravel the unspeakable truths behind a racial conspiracy that shocked a community into silence.
Subjects: True crime stories.; Audiobooks.; Daniels, Jesse Delbert, 1938-2018; Discrimination in criminal justice administration;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Beneath a ruthless sun [large print] : a true story of violence, race, and justice lost and found / by King, Gilbert,author.(CARDINAL)353446;
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller "Devil in the Grove" comes a gripping story of sex, race, class, corruption, and the arc of justice. In December 1957, Blanche Bosanquet Knowles, the wealthy young wife of a citrus baron, is raped in her home while her husband is away. Journalist Mabel Norris Reese and an inexperienced young lawyer pursue the case, winning unlikely allies and chasing down leads until at long last they begin to unravel the unspeakable truths behind a racial conspiracy that shocked a community into silence.
Subjects: Large print books.; True crime stories.; Biographies.; Daniels, Jesse Delbert, 1938-2018.; Rape; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Racism; Sexual assault.; Racism.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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