Bøker av Elizabeth Comack

Criminalized men tell us how they overcame trauma, racism, poverty, and abuse. Personal and institutional supports of caring are key - being cared for and caring for others.

Law's power to criminalize is formidable. Traditional legal doctrine argues that law dispenses justice in an impartial and unbiased fashion. Critical legal theorists claim that law reproduces gender, race and class inequalities. This text offers an analysis that acknowledges the tensions between these two views of law.

Criminalizing women has become all too frequent in these neoliberal times. Meanwhile, poverty, racism and misogyny continue to frame criminalized women's lives. Criminalizing Women introduces the key issues addressed by feminists engaged in criminology research over the past four decades. The contributors explore how narratives that construct

Published some two decades ago, Elizabeth Comack's Women in Trouble explored the connections between the women's abuse histories and their law violations as well as their experience of imprisonment in an aged facility. What has changed for incarcerated women in those twenty years?