This text examines the various roles of women in the criminal justice system against a social context in which women are oppressed.   The text examines the following three roles of women in criminal justice: Women as victims of crimes Women as criminals convicted and sentenced for crimesWomen as workers in various agencies in the criminal justice system

Product Description: This introductory social work book provides both a theoretical and applied overview of the U.S. social welfare system, with international perspectives throughout. Other strengths include themes of empowerment theory and practice and an ecosystems framework...read more

Product Description: Katherine van Wormer's Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice examines the twin forces of oppression and injustice and how social policies, cultural institutions, and prevailing ideologies promote or sustain them. Using an internationally informed perspective, she unpacks concepts such as internalization of oppression, injustice, restorative justice, social exclusion, empowerment, and critical consciousness...read more

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Product Description: In this volume van Wormer establishes a link between the crimes of fem ale offenders and environmental factors such as substance abuse and se xual abuse. Combining strategies from the fields of criminal justice a nd social work, she shows how to empower female offenders and how to r ehabilitate them to society by building on their personal strengths...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Key Benefits: This book joins the strengths approach with an overview of social work practice with an oppressed population. A strengths approach provides a skills framework that can be used with any vulnerable or oppressed group...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Dedicated to the world's marginalized people, this exhaustively documented text studies that United States' social welfare system in comparison to international approaches with extensive coverage of the systems in Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Mexico, and Norway...read more