Bloomsbury Academic Women in the Criminal Justice System: Third Edition

A review of the previous edition: For those who teach, do research, or work in the criminal justice system, [this] book can help to increase critical thinking by uncovering some of the hidden systematic problems....A good supplemental text for any of the following courses: criminal justice, law and politics, state and local government, women and the law, women's studies, sociology, and criminology. Criminal Justice Policy Review Review ?For those who teach, do research, or work in the criminal justice system, Clarice Feinman's book can help to increase critical thinking by uncovering some of the hidden systematic problems. The questions raised provide a basis for continued debate about a system under pressure. Women in Criminal Justice is a good supplemental text for any one of the following courses: criminal justice, law and politics, state and local government, women and the law, women's studies, sociology, and criminology.?-Criminal Justice Policy Review (about the previous edition) "For those who teach, do research, or work in the criminal justice system, Clarice Feinman's book can help to increase critical thinking by uncovering some of the hidden systematic problems. The questions raised provide a basis for continued debate about a system under pressure. Women in Criminal Justice is a good supplemental text for any one of the following courses: criminal justice, law and politics, state and local government, women and the law, women's studies, sociology, and criminology."-Criminal Justice Policy Review (about the previous edition) About the Author CLARICE FEINMAN is Professor of Law and Justice at Trenton State College, New Jersey. She has been director of a rehabilitation program at the New York City Correctional Institution for Women and consultant/instructor to the New Jersey Department of Corrections Training Academy. Dr. Feinman is the founder and former editor of the international and interdisciplinary journal Women & Criminal Justice. She is the editor of The Criminalization of a Woman's Body (1992) and Criminal Justice Politics and Women: The Aftermath of Legally Mandated Change (with C. Schweber, 1985).