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2012 Winner of the Outstanding Book Award presented by the Academy
of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Academic Title from 2011
by Choice Magazine Too often, the criminal justice system silences
victims, which leaves them frustrated, angry, and with many
unanswered questions. Despite their rage and pain, many victims
want the opportunity to confront their offenders and find
resolution. After the Crime explores a victim-offender dialogue
program that offers victims of severe violence an opportunity to
meet face-to-face with their incarcerated offenders. Using rich
in-depth interview data, the book follows the harrowing stories of
crimes of stranger rape, domestic violence, marital rape, incest,
child sexual abuse, murder, and drunk driving, ultimately moving
beyond story-telling to provide an accessible scholarly analysis of
restorative justice. Susan Miller argues that the program has
significantly helped the victims who chose to face their offenders
in very concrete, transformative ways. Likewise, the offenders have
also experienced positive changes in their lives in terms of
creating greater accountability and greater victim empathy. After
the Crime explores their transformative experiences with
restorative justice, vividly illustrating how one program has
worked in conjunction with the criminal justice system in order to
strengthen victim empowerment.
More than one in three women in the United States has experienced
rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in
their lifetime. Luckily, many are able to escape this life-but what
happens to them after? Journeys focuses on the desperately
understudied topic of the resiliency of long-term (over 5 years)
survivors of intimate partner violence and abuse. Drawing on
participant observation research and interviews with women years
after the end of their abusive relationships, author Susan L.
Miller shares these women's trials and tribulations, and expounds
on the factors that facilitated these women's success in gaining
inner strength, personal efficacy, and transformation. Written for
researchers, practitioners, students, and policy makers in criminal
justice, sociology, and social services, Journeys shares stories
that hope to inspire other victims and survivors while illuminating
the different paths to resiliency and growth.
More than one in three women in the United States has experienced
rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in
their lifetime. Luckily, many are able to escape this life-but what
happens to them after? Journeys focuses on the desperately
understudied topic of the resiliency of long-term (over 5 years)
survivors of intimate partner violence and abuse. Drawing on
participant observation research and interviews with women years
after the end of their abusive relationships, author Susan L.
Miller shares these women's trials and tribulations, and expounds
on the factors that facilitated these women's success in gaining
inner strength, personal efficacy, and transformation. Written for
researchers, practitioners, students, and policy makers in criminal
justice, sociology, and social services, Journeys shares stories
that hope to inspire other victims and survivors while illuminating
the different paths to resiliency and growth.
Civil Court Responses to Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse fills
a void in existing literature by shifting the conversation about
intimate partner violence and abuse away from research that
emphasizes criminal system responses and focusing instead on civil
court responses. The volume highlights innovative theory and
research about civil legal systems, helping readers better
understand the interactions between people-survivors, offenders,
children, and legal professionals-and these systems. Featuring
interdisciplinary scholarship written exclusively for this volume,
the text provides readers with a focused exploration of civil
protection order systems, family court systems, state child
protection systems, immigration systems, and more. It includes
attention to the ways in which inequality based on race, ethnicity,
immigration status, and socioeconomic status affects survivors and
their interactions with the civil legal system. The book is an
invaluable resource for courses in intimate partner or family
violence, as well as for professionals who work with victims. Civil
Court Responses to Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse is part of
the Cognella Series on Family and Gender-Based Violence, an
interdisciplinary collection of textbooks featuring cross-cultural
perspectives, cutting-edge strategies and interventions, and timely
research on family and gender-based violence.
While traditional policing celebrated male officers as masculine
crime fighters who were tough, aloof, and physically intimidating,
policewomen were characterized as too soft and emotional for patrol
assignments and were relegated to roles focusing on children, other
women, or clerical tasks. With the advent of community policing,
women's perceived skills are finally finding a legitimate place in
police work, and law enforcement structures now encourage such
previously undervalued feminine traits as trust, cooperation,
compassion, interpersonal communication, and conflict resolution.
In this illuminating study of gender and community policing, Susan
L. Miller draws on a combination of survey data, forthright
interviews with a diverse mix of police officers, and extensive
fieldwork conducted in a midwestern city where community policing
has been practiced for over a decade. She describes the differences
and similarities in policing styles of male and female officers,
considers the relationships that develop between neighborhood
police on foot and patrol officers in squad cars, and explores the
interactions between neighborhood officers and community members.
Miller confronts such questions as how police reconcile
incompatible images of masculinity and femininity; how actions of
neighborhood police officers compare with those of traditional
rapid response patrol officers; how community police cope with
resistance from the rank and file; and how gender and gender-role
expectations shape police activities and the evaluation of new
skills.
Gender and Community Policing provides both a feminist framework
for community policing and a fresh examination of how race, gender,
and sexual orientation affect police image, identity, and methods.
2012 Winner of the Outstanding Book Award presented by the Academy
of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Academic Title from 2011
by Choice Magazine Too often, the criminal justice system silences
victims, which leaves them frustrated, angry, and with many
unanswered questions. Despite their rage and pain, many victims
want the opportunity to confront their offenders and find
resolution. After the Crime explores a victim-offender dialogue
program that offers victims of severe violence an opportunity to
meet face-to-face with their incarcerated offenders. Using rich
in-depth interview data, the book follows the harrowing stories of
crimes of stranger rape, domestic violence, marital rape, incest,
child sexual abuse, murder, and drunk driving, ultimately moving
beyond story-telling to provide an accessible scholarly analysis of
restorative justice. Susan Miller argues that the program has
significantly helped the victims who chose to face their offenders
in very concrete, transformative ways. Likewise, the offenders have
also experienced positive changes in their lives in terms of
creating greater accountability and greater victim empathy. After
the Crime explores their transformative experiences with
restorative justice, vividly illustrating how one program has
worked in conjunction with the criminal justice system in order to
strengthen victim empowerment.
"Finally, a book that moves us forward in the 'mutuality debate.'
Miller's research demonstrates the seeming inability--or
unwillingness--of the criminal legal system to recognize that
gender (as well as race, class, and sexual orientation) matters in
intimate partner violence, but even more importantly, she offers
compelling answers to the question, 'What can we do about it?'"
--Claire M. Renzetti, Ph.D., editor of Violence Against Women: An
International, Interdisciplinary Journal Arrests of women for
assault increased more than 40 percent over the past decade, while
male arrests for this offense have fallen by about 1 percent. Some
studies report that for the first time ever the rate of reported
intimate partner abuse among men and women is nearly equal. Susan
L. Miller's timely book explores the most important questions
raised by these startling statistics. Are women finally closing the
gender gap on violence? Or does this phenomenon reflect a backlash
shaped by men who batter? How do abusive men use the criminal
justice system to increase control over their wives? Do police,
courts, and treatment providers support aggressive arrest policies
for women? Are these women "victims" or "offenders"? In answering
these questions, Miller draws on extensive data from a study of
police behavior in the field, interviews with criminal justice
professionals and social service providers, and participant
observation of female offender programs. She offers a critical
analysis of the theoretical assumptions framing the study of
violence and provides insight into the often contradictory
implications of the mandatory and pro-arrest policies enacted in
the 1980s and 1990s. Miller argues that these enforcement
strategies, designed to protect women, have often victimized women
in different ways. Without sensationalizing, Miller unveils a
reality that looks very different from what current statistics on
domestic violence imply. Susan L. Miller is a professor of
sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware. A
volume in the Critical Issues in Crime and Society series, edited
by Raymond J. Michalowski, Jr.
In The Victimization of Women, Michelle Meloy and Susan Miller
present a balanced, comprehensive, and objective summary of the
most significant research on the victimizations, violence, and
victim politics that disproportionately affect women. They examine
the history of violence against women, the surrounding debates, the
legal reforms and justice system outcomes, the related media and
social-service responses, and the current science on intimate
partner violence, stalking, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and
rape. Plus, they augment these victimization findings with original
research on women convicted of domestic battery and men convicted
of sexual abuse and other sex-related offenses. In these new data
the authors explore the unanticipated consequences associated with
changes to the laws governing domestic violence and the newer forms
of sex-offender legislation. Both of these investigations are based
on qualitative data that involve in-depth offender-based interviews
that probe the circumstances surrounding the arrests and
victimizations involved in the cases, the significant legal issues,
and their experiences with the criminal justice system.
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
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 book discusses empirically
driven and theoretically driven implications of today crime control
policies. Miller provides a substantive introductory overview and a
concluding summary, creating a cohesive text that emphasizes 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. It future implications also make
it an essential component for courses related to criminology,
criminal justice, gender studies, sociology, public policy, and
social work.
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 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 book discusses empirically driven and theoretically driven implications of today crime control policies. Miller provides a substantive introductory overview and a concluding summary, creating a cohesive text that emphasizes 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. It future implications also make it an essential component for courses related to criminology, criminal justice, gender studies, sociology, public policy, and social work.
In The Victimization of Women, Michelle Meloy and Susan Miller
present a balanced, comprehensive, and objective summary of the
most significant research on the victimizations, violence, and
victim politics that disproportionately affect women. They examine
the history of violence against women, the surrounding debates, the
legal reforms and justice system outcomes, the related media and
social-service responses, and the current science on intimate
partner violence, stalking, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and
rape. Plus, they augment these victimization findings with original
research on women convicted of domestic battery and men convicted
of sexual abuse and other sex-related offenses. In these new data
the authors explore the unanticipated consequences associated with
changes to the laws governing domestic violence and the newer forms
of sex-offender legislation. Both of these investigations are based
on qualitative data that involve in-depth offender-based interviews
that probe the circumstances surrounding the arrests and
victimizations involved in the cases, the significant legal issues,
and their experiences with the criminal justice system.
While traditional policing celebrated male officers as masculine
crime fighters who were tough, aloof, and physically intimidating,
policewomen were characterized as too soft and emotional for patrol
assignments and were relegated to roles focusing on children, other
women, or clerical tasks. With the advent of community policing,
women's perceived skills are finally finding a legitimate place in
police work, and law enforcement structures now encourage such
previously undervalued feminine traits as trust, cooperation,
compassion, interpersonal communication, and conflict resolution.
In this illuminating study of gender and community policing, Susan
L. Miller draws on a combination of survey data, forthright
interviews with a diverse mix of police officers, and extensive
fieldwork conducted in a midwestern city where community policing
has been practiced for over a decade. She describes the differences
and similarities in policing styles of male and female officers,
considers the relationships that develop between neighborhood
police on foot and patrol officers in squad cars, and explores the
interactions between neighborhood officers and community members.
Miller confronts such questions as how police reconcile
incompatible images of masculinity and femininity; how actions of
neighborhood police officers compare with those of traditional
rapid response patrol officers; how community police cope with
resistance from the rank and file; and how gender and gender-role
expectations shape police activities and the evaluation of new
skills.
Gender and Community Policing provides both a feminist framework
for community policing and a fresh examination of how race, gender,
andsexual orientation affect police image, identity, and methods.
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