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Book Review: Women and the Criminal Justice System

Book Review: Women and the Criminal Justice System Book Reviews 513 REFERENCE Abramovitz, M. (1988). Regulating the lives of women: Women and social welfare from colonial times to the present. Boston: South End. Women and the Criminal Justice System. By Katherine Stuart van Wormer and Clemens Bartollas. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2000, 244 pp., $33 (paper). As the number of adults under correctional control has swelled in the United States (Beck & Karberg, 2001), it has become crucial for social workers to have a working knowl- edge of the criminal justice system. Using a feminist lens that recognizes how gender, race, and class intersect to contribute to the choices women make and the consequences they suffer; and an empowerment perspective for promoting possibilities for change, this book focuses on women who both affect and are affected by crime and the criminal justice system. The authors build on previous work in this genre (Feinman, 1994; Price & Sokoloff, 1995) that presents more of the objective overview of these issues from a broader historical and crimino- logical standpoint. They provide updated information on the current status of women in all aspects of the U.S. criminal jus- tice system. In the section on incarcerated women, they draw from the important http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

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Book Reviews 513 REFERENCE Abramovitz, M. (1988). Regulating the lives of women: Women and social welfare from colonial times to the present. Boston: South End. Women and the Criminal Justice System. By Katherine Stuart van Wormer and Clemens Bartollas. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2000, 244 pp., $33 (paper). As the number of adults under correctional control has swelled in the United States (Beck & Karberg, 2001), it has become crucial for social workers to have a working knowl- edge of the criminal justice system. Using a feminist lens that recognizes how gender, race, and class intersect to contribute to the choices women make and the consequences they suffer; and an empowerment perspective for promoting possibilities for change, this book focuses on women who both affect and are affected by crime and the criminal justice system. The authors build on previous work in this genre (Feinman, 1994; Price & Sokoloff, 1995) that presents more of the objective overview of these issues from a broader historical and crimino- logical standpoint. They provide updated information on the current status of women in all aspects of the U.S. criminal jus- tice system. In the section on incarcerated women, they draw from the important

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Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work – SAGE

Published: Nov 1, 2001

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