Crime Control and Women
Subtitle: Feminist Implications of Criminal Justice Policy
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: February 12, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780761907138
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Ethnic studies; Women's studies; Sociology; Services For Women; Criminal Justice Administration; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Social aspects; USA; Sex discrimination in criminal; Social Science / Criminology; Criminal justice, Administrati; United States; Criminal Law - General; Criminology; Criminal justice, Administration of; Female offenders; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
First sentence: The 1994 Federal Crime Control Act marks the 26th year of the "get tough on crime" movement initiated with the passage of the 1968 Crime Control and Safe Streets Act (Donziger 1996, p. 14).