With recent "tough on crime" policies of the 1990s, the negative impact on women and children reverberates
with social unawareness. Using a feminist perspective, Crime Control and Women explores the adverse effects
of the U.S. crackdown on crime. Edited by Susan L. Miller, this book exposes the unintended consequences of today's
crime control policies: how cuts from social services to pay for crime control can disproportionately affect women;
how women incur increased responsibility for family while men serve longer sentences; and how government often
victimizes women as third parties when women are associated with criminals.
Using policy-oriented contributions, the chapters discuss empirically driven and theoretically driven implications
of today's crime control policies. Miller provides a substantive introductory overview and a concluding summary,
creating a cohesive text emphasizing a reduction in crime through commitments to prevention, education, and treatment.
A timely book, Crime Control and Women is vital for criminal justice academics and practitioners, mental
health professionals, and policy makers. Its future implications also make it an essential component for courses
related to criminology, criminal justice, gender studies, sociology, public policy, and social work.
Table of Contents
Introduction M. Chesney-Lind
1. Three Strikes and You're Out! What Will Women Pay for the Pitch? - M. Danner
2. Civil Forfeiture of Property: The Victimization of Women as Innocent Owners and Third Parties - J. Massey,
S. L. Miller & A. Wilhelmi
3. A Critical Look at the Idea of Boot Camp as a Correctional Reform - M. Morash & L. Rucker
4. Warnings to Women: Police Advice and Women's Safety in Britain - E. A. Stanko
5. Gender, Class, and Race in Three High Profile Crimes: The Cases of New Bedford, Central Park, and Bensonhurst
- L. S. Chancer
6. The Tangled Web of Feminism and Community Policing - S. L. Miller
7. Investigating the Impact of the "War on Drugs" on the Incarceration of Black Females - S. Bush-Baskette
8. Parenting Through Prison Walls: Incarcerated Mothers and Children's Visitation Programs - Z. K. Snyder-Joy
& T. A. Carlo
9. Masculinities, Violence, and Communitarian Control - J. Braithwaite & K. Daly
10. Connecting the Dots: Women, Public Policy, and Social Control - C. M. Renzetti
