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The Invisible Woman
Gender, Crime, and Justice
Fifth Edition
- Joanne Belknap - University of Colorado Boulder, USA
September 2023 | 568 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Now with SAGE Publishing!
The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice offers a thorough exploration of the theories and issues regarding the experiences of women and girls with the criminal justice system as victims, offenders, and criminal justice professionals. Working to counter the "invisibility" of women in criminal justice, this definitive text utilizes a feminist perspective that incorporates current research, theory, and the intersections of sexism with racism, classism, and other types of oppression. Focusing on empowerment of marginalized populations, author Joanne Belknap’s gendered approach to the criminal justice system examines how to improve the visibility of women and to promote their role in society.
Included with this title:
The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides. Learn more.
The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice offers a thorough exploration of the theories and issues regarding the experiences of women and girls with the criminal justice system as victims, offenders, and criminal justice professionals. Working to counter the "invisibility" of women in criminal justice, this definitive text utilizes a feminist perspective that incorporates current research, theory, and the intersections of sexism with racism, classism, and other types of oppression. Focusing on empowerment of marginalized populations, author Joanne Belknap’s gendered approach to the criminal justice system examines how to improve the visibility of women and to promote their role in society.
Included with this title:
The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides. Learn more.
Preface and Acknowledgments
New to This Edition
About the Author
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Gendering Criminology Through an Intersectional Lens
Part II: Women And Girls’ Offending
Chapter 2: Theories Part I: Positivist, Evolutionary, Strain, Differential Association, Social Control, and Women’s Emancipation Theories
Chapter 3: Theories Part II: Critical, Labeling, Cycle of Violence, Life Course, Pathways, and Masculinity Theories
Chapter 4: Accounting for Gender–Crime Patterns
Chapter 5: The Context of Women and Girls’ Offending for Specific Crimes
Chapter 6: Processing Women and Girls in the Criminal Legal System
Chapter 7: Incarcerating, Punishing, and “Treating” Offending Women and Girls
Part III: Gender-Based Abuse
Chapter 8: Gender-Based Abuse (GBA)
Chapter 9: Focusing on Sexual Abuse
Chapter 10: Intimate Partner Abuse (IPA) and Stalking
Part IV: Women Working In The Criminal Legal System
Chapter 11: Women Working in Prisons and Jails
Chapter 12: Women Working in Policing and Law Enforcement
Chapter 13: Women Working in the Courts
Part V: Conclusions
Chapter 14: Effecting Change
References
Index
Supplements
Instructor Resource Site
edge.sagepub.com/belknap5e
Online resources included with this text
The online resources for your text are available via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site, which offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.
edge.sagepub.com/belknap5e
Online resources included with this text
The online resources for your text are available via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site, which offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.
“The Invisible Woman should be a required text for every Criminal Justice student. It provides an in-depth look at women in the criminal justice system from a feminist perspective that examines women offenders to women practitioners in the field. The approach is very appealing, especially in our current political climate.”
Walden University
“The Invisible Woman is the authority, in my opinion, for discussions about gender and crime…It is a straightforward and compelling text that applies a feminist perspective in understanding complex issues, involving women and gender, crime, offending, victimization, and the practitioner experience.”
Virginia Commonwealth University
"I appreciate that this text offers a balance of addressing theory, offending, victimization, and women’s participation in criminal justice institutions. The text’s commitment to a feminist perspective provides a welcome distinction from other currently available books.”
Bridgewater College
“The text provides informative and insightful information on what’s happening with women while providing strategic activities on how to improve the visibility of women to ensure programs, services, and promote their role in society.”
Arizona State University
“The Invisible Woman is the best book out there to date.”
University of Alaska Fairbanks
This book was used in the previous iteration of this course and has a lot of the themes I want touch upon as well. It explains the disparity of women and the justice system whether it be corrections, policing or the courts effectively
School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University Newark
August 11, 2024
Several chapters in this text addresses intersectionality, masculinity and categorizing young girls and women in the context of how this course is taught. The book is a compliment to journal articles and popular culture readings assigned in this class.
Communications, Univ Of Connecticut-Stamford
October 27, 2021
