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Outlawed in Pakistan [videorecording] by Nosheen, Habiba.auspro; Schellmann, Hilke.auspro; Center for Asian American Media.; H2H Films.; PBS Distribution (Firm)(CARDINAL)309769;
Editor, Hemal Trivedi ; directors of photography, Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann ; oribigal music, John E. Low.Originally broadcast by PBS May 28, 2013.The story of Kainat Soomro, a thirteen year old girl, who had accused four men of gang raping her. In hopes of getting justice she goes to the court system, but is ordered to be killed instead of getting justice.DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation, NTSC.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Soomro, Kainat.; Rape victims; Rape; Sex discrimination in justice administration; Women;
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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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Still unequal : the shameful truth about women and justice in America / by Dusky, Lorraine.(CARDINAL)135023;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-439) and index.
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women; Sexual harassment of women; Sex discrimination in justice administration; Sex crimes; Women; Women lawyers; Sexual violence.; Women.; Womyn.;
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Know my name : a memoir / by Miller, Chanel,author.(CARDINAL)813096;
She was know to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral--viewed by almost eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Thousands wrote to say that she had given them the courage to share their own experiences of assault for the first time. Now she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power of words. It was the perfect case, in many ways--there were eyewitnesses, Turner ran away, physical evidence was immediately secured. But her struggles with isolation and shame during the aftermath and the trial reveal the oppression victims face in even the best-case scenarios. Her story illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicts a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable, and, ultimately, shines with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life.880L
Subjects: Autobiographies.; True crime stories.; Case studies.; Miller, Chanel.; Rape victims; Women; Rape in universities and colleges.; Judicial error; Trials (Rape); Sex discrimination in justice administration; Women.; Womyn.;
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The streets belong to us : sex, race, and police power from segregation to gentrification / by Fischer, Anne Gray,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-280) and index.Introduction : Built on women's bodies -- Prologue : White purity and the progressive origins of police power -- Making the modern city : sexual policing and Black segregation from Prohibition to the Great Depression -- Bad girls and the good war : the nationalization of sexual policing in World War II -- Los Angeles, land of the white hunter : legal liberalism, police professionalism, and Black protest -- Boston, the place is gone! : policing Black women to redevelop downtown -- Atlanta, from the prostitution problem to the sanitized zone : broken windows policing and gentrification -- Taking back the night : feminist activisms in the age of broken windows policing -- Epilogue : These streets belong to all of us."Police power was built on women's bodies. Men, especially Black men, often stand in as the ultimate symbol of the mass incarceration crisis in the United States. Women are treated as marginal, if not overlooked altogether, in histories of the criminal legal system. In The Streets Belong to Us - the first history of women and police in the modern United States - Anne Gray Fischer narrates how sexual policing fueled a dramatic expansion of police power. The enormous discretionary power that police officers wield to surveil, target, and arrest anyone they deem suspicious was tested, legitimized, and legalized through the policing of women's sexuality and their right to move freely through city streets. Throughout the twentieth century, police departments achieved a stunning consolidation of urban authority through the strategic discretionary enforcement of morals laws, including disorderly conduct, vagrancy, and other prostitution-related misdemeanors. Between Prohibition in the 1920s and the rise of 'broken windows' policing in the 1980s, police targeted white and Black women in distinct but interconnected ways. These tactics reveal the centrality of racist and sexist myths to the justification and deployment of state power. Sexual policing did not just enhance police power. It also transformed cities from segregated sites of 'urban vice' into the gentrified sites of Black displacement and banishment we live in today. By illuminating both the racial dimension of sexual liberalism and the gender dimension of policing in Black neighborhoods, The Streets Belong to Us illustrates the decisive role that race, gender, and sexuality played in the construction of urban police regimes"--
Subjects: Police; Discrimination in law enforcement; Sex discrimination against women; African American women; Sex discrimination in justice administration; Urban policy; Marginality, Social; Police.;
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