Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales presents a comprehensive assessment and analysis of the role of women in the criminal justice system as offenders, victims, and practitioners.

Utilizing feminist perspectives, the authors shed important new light on a wide range of women and gender issues relating to criminal offending, victimization, and the criminal justice workplace. While seamlessly incorporating issues of race, class, and international perspectives throughout the text, coverage includes such topics as criminal law, case processing, domestic violence, transgendered prisoners, cyberbullying, offender reentry, sex trafficking--and a variety of issues relating to professional women in the criminal justice workplace such as police culture, women as lawyers and jurists, judicial decision-making, women working in corrections facilities, and many more. Topical examples and personal narratives interspersed throughout the text greatly enhance comprehension and stimulate critical thinking about the various topics covered.

Contributing timely and important knowledge to an underserved field, Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales offers illuminating insights into the relationship of gender to crime and justice.