Crime Control and Women Feminist Implications of Criminal Justice Policy

by Susan L. Miller

• ISBN13: 9780761907138
• ISBN10: 0761907130
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-02-12
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

Crime Control and Women reveals the current limitations of criminal justice policies that are oblivious to the impact they exert on citizens who vary by gender, race and//or social class. Feminist in perspective, the contributors to this volume share a common vision of hope that social change will result from social control and punishment that is just and human, with commitments to prevention, education and treatment.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix	(4)
Acknowledgments	xiii	(2)
Introduction	xv
1. Three Strikes and It's Women Who Are Out: The Hidden Consequences for Women of Criminal Justice Policy Reforms	1	(14)
Mona J.E. Danner
Looking for Women	3	(3)
Strike One-Off the Rolls	6	(2)
Strike Two-Jobs for Whom?	8	(2)
Strike Three-Family Values?	10	(1)
Final Thoughts: An Every Woman's Issue	11	(4)
2. Civil Forfeiture of Property: The Victimization of Women as Innocent Owners and Third Parties	15	(17)
James Massey
Susan L. Miller
Anna Wilhelmi
Case Selection	18	(1)
Background	18	(2)
The Innocent-Owner Gauntlet	20	(6)
Discussion and Conclusion	26	(6)
3. A Critical Look at the Idea of Boot Camp as a Correctional Reform	32	(20)
Merry Morash
Lila Rucker
Introduction: The Boot Camp Idea	32	(3)
What Has Been Tried and What Works in Corrections?	35	(4)
Military Boot Camps	39	(4)
Stereotypes of Masculinity and Correctional Measures	43	(3)
Alternative Models in Corrections	46	(6)
4. Warnings to Women: Police Advice and Women's Safety in Britain	52	(20)
Elizabeth A. Stanko
Some Contextual Backgrounds	53	(3)
A Methodological and Theoretical Approach for Analyzing Safety Advice	56	(1)
Advising Caution: A Look at the Safety Advice	57	(6)
Popularizing Danger: Media and Police Advice	63	(4)
Concluding Remarks	67	(5)
5. Gender, Class, and Race in Three High-Profile Crimes: The Cases of New Bedford, Central Park, and Bensonhurst	72	(23)
Lynn S. Chancer
New Bedford, Massachusetts: A Case of Gender Versus Ethnicity	75	(3)
The Central Park Jogger: Introducing Class and Race Differences	78	(8)
Bensonhurst: Similarities and Differences in a Homicide Case	86	(4)
Conclusion	90	(5)
6. The Tangled Web of Feminism and Community Policing	95	(18)
Susan L. Miller
Community Policing of the 1990s	97	(1)
"Different-Voice" Perspectives and Justice Issues	98	(3)
Policing as a Male Institution and Site of Gendered Action	101	(1)
Barriers to Women as Police Officers: Moving Beyond Women, Children, and Typewriters	102	(4)
Examining the Conflict Between Traditional Beliefs and Alternative Beliefs	106	(2)
Conclusion	108	(5)
7. The War on Drugs as a War Against Black Women	113	(17)
Stephanie R. Bush-Baskette
Conceptual Framework	114	(3)
A Closer Analysis of the Female Prisoner	117	(2)
Gender, Race, and Criminal Justice System Practices	119	(2)
The Need to Investigate the Effects of the Drug War on the Incarceration of Black Females	121	(9)
8. Parenting Through Prison Walls: Incarcerated Mothers and Children's Visitation Programs	130	(21)
Zoann K. Snyder-Joy
Teresa A. Carlo
Growth in the U.S. Female Prisoner Population	131	(1)
The Impact of Mothers' Incarceration on Children	132	(2)
The Impact of Incarceration on Mothers	134	(2)
Parenting Classes and Mother-Children Visitation Programs	136	(1)
Methodology	137	(2)
Findings	139	(8)
Conclusions	147	(4)
9. Masculinities, Violence, and Communitarian Control	151	(30)
John Braithwaite
Kathleen Daly
Multiple Masculinities and Normal Violence	152	(1)
Failures of Justice System Intervention	153	(1)
Republican Criminology	154	(1)
The Community Conference Strategy	155	(3)
Community Conferences in the Regulatory Pyramid	158	(5)
Community Conferences and the Pyramid as a Response	163	(5)
Questions About the Conference-Pyramid Enforcement Model	168	(4)
Conclusions	172	(9)
10. Connecting the Dots: Women, Public Policy, and Social Control	181	(9)
Claire M. Renzetti
Controlling Women	182	(4)
Feminism and Public Policy	186	(3)
The Big Picture	189	(1)
Index	190	(8)
About the Authors	198