Neither Angels nor Demons Women, Crime, and Victimization

Name: Neither Angels nor Demons Women, Crime, and Victimization
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ISBN: 9781555536633

ISBN-10: 1555536638

ISBN-13: 9781555536633

Edition: 2006

Authors: Kathleen Ferraro, Kathleen Ferraro

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She is a victim of intimate partner violence, a woman who has been harmed. She is a criminal offender, a woman who has harmed others. Superficially, it seems she is two separate women. "Victim" and "offender" are binary categories used within law, social science, and public discourse to describe social experiences with a moral dimension. Such terms draw upon cultural narratives of good and bad people and have influenced scholarship, public policy, and activism. The duality of "good" and "bad" women, separated into mutually exclusive extremes of angels and demons, has helped segregate thinking about, and responses to, each group. In this groundbreaking study, Kathleen J. Ferraro exposes…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.97" wide x 8.99" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Blurred Boundaries and the Complexities of Experience


Irreconcilable Differences: Women's Encounters with the Criminal Processing System


Negotiating Surreality


The Social Reproduction of Women's Pain


Demonic Angels?: Violence against Abusers


Angelic Demons?: Crimes of Complicity


Epilogue


Appendixes


Pseudonym, Race/Ethnicity, Charges, Relationship to Victim(s), and Role in Offense


Abuse of Drugs and Alcohol


Women Who Killed Their Husbands/Partners


Context of Violence against Husbands/Partners


Prior Police Involvement, Children, Work, Abused as Child, and Parental Absence


Women Who Committed Crimes against Others


A Note on Method


Notes


References


Index