Criminal justice research and practice
Subtitle: diverse voices from the field
By: edited by Susan L. Miller.
Contributors: Miller, Susan L.
Series: The Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law
Publisher: Northeastern University Press; Published by University Press of New England
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston; Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781555536848; 9781555536855
Subjects: Criminology -- Study and teaching; Criminal justice, Administration of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Claire M. Renzetti; title: Editor's preface and acknowledgments; title: Ways to inquire: research methods; title: Introduction: from passion to practice / Joanne Belknap and Hillary Potter; title: Feminist research methods in theory and action: learning from death row exonerees / Saundra D. Westervelt and Kimberly J. Cook; title: Dispatches from the field: negotiating difference and diversity in criminological research / Shana L. Maier and Brian A. Monahan; title: Inquirers: professionals, activists, and researchers; title: "Comforting the troubled and troubling the comfortable": reflections on lawyering for the poor / Daniel Atkins and Eliza Patten; title: When the stakes are life and death: the promise and peril of public sociology/criminology for capital cases / Jill McCorkel; title: Getting from here to there: a guide for aspiring academics / Susan Caringella and Drew Humphries; title: Diversifying the research enterprise: experiences of African American women working in a federal research agency / Angela Moore-Parmley and Jocelyn Fontaine; title: Sites of inquiry: topics and samples; title: Changing my life, among others: reflections on the life and work of a feminist man / Walter S. DeKeseredy; title: Managing a man's world: the experiences of a female probation officer in a male sex offender supervision unit / Michelle L. Meloy; title: Diversity in blue: lesbian and gay police officers in a masculine occupation / Susan L. Miller, Kay B. Forest, and Nancy C. Jurik; title: "This isn't about us": benefits of dog training programs in a women's prison / Dana M. Britton and Andrea L. Button; title: Epilogue: Criminal justice, gender, and diversity: a call for passion and public criminology / Meda Chesney-Lind; title: Contributors' biographies.