Moving between the spaces of the outside community and prison?"out there" and "in here"?this study explores the complicated connections between masculinity and violence in the lives of men incarcerate
This book addresses two areas of feminist scholarship—the recognition of violence against women and the endeavor to make visible the lives of women in prison. Beginning with personal accounts of troub
The tension between traditionalist legal theories that maintain that the law dispenses justice in an impartial fashion and critical theories that maintain that the law reproduces gender, race, and cla
Taking on the controversial subject of racial profiling by Canadian police, this book explores how ethnicity and discrimination play out in institutional practices and systemic processes, exposing the
Women are becoming the fastest-growing segment in the prison population, indicating that the ways in which western societies have perceived offending women has changed, or that women are becoming more
Updated to reflect new legislation, directives, and jurisprudence, this exploration of the relationship between law and society takes on the full range of legal areas?including family law, immigration
