Female victims of crime
Subtitle: reality reconsidered
By: Venessa Garcia, Janice E. Clifford, Roslyn Muraskin [editors].
Contributors: Garcia, Venessa.; Clifford, Janice E.; Muraskin, Roslyn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall; Prentice Hall
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780132339315
Subjects: Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States; Women -- Crimes against -- United States; Victims of crimes -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreward / Roslyn Muraskin; title: Introduction the gendered nature of victimization / Venessa Garcia, Janice E. Clifford; title: Doing gender: a historical & social context; title: Cultural images: media images: "doing culture" and victim blaming of female crime victims / Venessa Garcia, Erica J. Schweikert; title: Becoming victims, becoming citizens: a brief history of gender-motivated violence in the U.S. law / Melissa S. Fry; title: Women and victimization: constructing outcomes / Dennis R. Brewster, Philip D. Holley; title: The measurement, definition, and reporting of female victimization / Janice E. Clifford, John P. Jarvis; title: Gendered crimes: the context of female victimization; title: Leading lethal lives? Variations in the structure, context, and cultural response of female homicide victims / Wendy Regoeczi, Terrance Meithe; title: The impact of gender, race, and class discrimination on femicide rates / Jo-Ann Della Giustina; title: Rape myths: impacts on victims of rape / Heather Melton; title: Domestic violence: overview of theoretical etiology, psychological impact and interventions / Sharon Boyd-Jackson; title: Are there gender differences in workplace violence victimization? Sometimes yes and sometimes no / Shannon Santana, Bonnie Fisher; title: Cyberbullying and online harassment: reconceptualizing the victimization of adolescent girls / Amanda Protor-Burgess, Justin Patchin, Sameer Hinduja; title: Societal and criminal justice response to female victimization; title: A sheltered life: observations on a domestic violence shelter / Angela Moe; title: In their own words: shelter residents: experiences with police / Gina Robertiello; title: I don't think a cop has ever asked me if I was ok: battered women's experiences with police intervention / Hillary Potter; title: The gendered paradox of victimization and agency in protection order filings / Alesha Durfee; title: Misdemeanor domestic violence cases in the courts: a description of the cases and an analysis of what predicts the verdict and sentence / Joanne Belknap, Jennifer L. Hartman, Victoria L. Lippen; title: The victimization histories of women prisoners in Oklahoma / Susan F. Sharp; title: The criminalization of victimization of female offenders and emerging correctional responses / Patrick McManimon.