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Print Price: $35.50

Format:
Paperback
256 pp.
6.125" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780199765119

Publication date:
December 2010

Imprint: OUP US

The Victimization of Women

Law, Policies, and Politics

Michelle L. Meloy and Susan L. Miller

In The Victimization of Women, Michelle Meloy and Susan Miller present a balanced, comprehensive, and objective summary of the most significant research on the victimizations, violence, and victim politics that disproportionately affect women. They examine the history of violence against women, the surrounding debates, the legal reforms and justice system outcomes, the related media and social-service responses, and the current science on intimate partner violence, stalking, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape. Plus, they augment these victimization findings with original research on women convicted of domestic battery and men convicted of sexual abuse and other sex-related offenses. In these new data the authors explore the unanticipated consequences associated with changes to the laws governing domestic violence and the newer forms of sex-offender legislation. Both of these investigations are based on qualitative data that involve in-depth offender-based interviews that probe the circumstances surrounding the arrests and victimizations involved in the cases, the significant legal issues, and their experiences with the criminal justice system.

Readership : Students and scholars in criminology, criminal justice, law, and sociology; graduate courses in gender and crime, victimization.

1. Introduction
2. Drawing the Contours of Victim Dilemmas
3. The Violent Victimization of Women: An Overview of Legal, Empirical and Measurement Issues
4. Media, Gender, and Crime Victims
5. Sexual Victimization: Offenders Speak out about their Victims
6. How Battered Women Lose: Unintended Consequences of Well-Intentioned Legal and Criminal Justice Policies
7. Assessing Where We Are, Where We Should Go and How Best to Get There
Notes
References
Index

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Michelle L. Meloy is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, Camden. Susan L. Miller is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. Her recent books include Victims as Offenders and Criminal Justice Research and Practice.

Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women - Edited by James Ptacek
Rethinking Gender, Crime, and Justice - Edited by Claire M. Renzetti, Lynne Goodstein and Susan L. Miller
Childhood Victimization - David Finkelhor
Coercive Control - Evan Stark
Familicidal Hearts - Neil Websdale
Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese

Special Features

Unique in its extensive coverage of policy topics as well as up-to-date inclusion of cutting-edge issues and published research on violence against women.
An accessible and comprehensive overview ideal for courses on gender and crime and violence against women.