Product Description: The number of women in prison and in jails continues to rise dramatically. The editors of Gendered (In)Justice have compiled articles that provide readers with the intellectual tools to understand and to critique the contributions of feminist thinking to criminology...read more

Product Description: Confined to an institution and further burdened by patriarchal assumptions and stereotypes, incarcerated women struggle to retain a sense of self-worth for themselves and often for their children. Scholarship on the subject typically has either ignored or trivialized the role of gender as an organizing feature of society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)