The disproportionate representation of black Americans in the U.S. criminal justice system is well documented. Far less well-documented are the entrenched systems and beliefs that shape punishment and other official forms of social control today. In Race, Gender, and Punishment, Mary Bosworth and Jeanne Flavin bring together twelve original essays by prominent scholars to examine not only the discrimination that is evident, but also the structural and cultural forces that have influenced and continue to perpetuate the current situation. Contributors point to four major factors that...
The disproportionate representation of black Americans in the U.S. criminal justice system is well documented. Far less well-documented are the entren...
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Sex and Gender Section
The Real Issue behind the Abortion Debate An op-ed by Jeanne Flavin in the San Francisco Chronicle
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The intense policing of women's reproductive capacity places women's health and human rights in great peril. Poor women are pressured to undergo sterilization. Women addicted to illicit drugs risk arrest for carrying their pregnancies to term. Courts, child welfare, and law enforcement agencies...
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Sex and Gender Section
Winner of the 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association
The intense policing of women's reproductive capacity places women's health and human rights in great peril. Poor women are pressured to undergo sterilization. Women addicted to illicit drugs risk arrest for carrying their pregnancies to term. Courts, child welfare, and law enforcement agencies fail to recognize the efforts of battered and incarcerated women to care for their children....
Winner of the 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from ...
