Neither angels nor demons : women, crime, and victimization / Kathleen J. Ferraro.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law.
Main Author: Ferraro, Kathleen J.
Language:English
Published: Boston : Hanover : Northeastern University Press ; University Press of New England, [2006], ©2006.
Series:Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law.
Subjects:
Female offenders.
Women > Crimes against.
Female offenders > United States > Case studies.
Abused women > United States > Case studies.
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Genre:
Case studies.
Physical Description:xi, 327 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Blurred boundaries and the complexities of experience
  • Irreconcilable differences : women's encounters with the criminal processing system
  • Negotiating surreality
  • The social reproduction of women's pain
  • Demonic angels? : violence against abusers
  • Angelic demons? : crimes of complicity
  • Epilogue.